


Concerned about the fate of the young talent, he recommended Gogol to the famous critic Peter Pletnev with a request to "attach" him. Soon, thanks to the publisher Baron Delvig, he met Vasily Zhukovsky, the teacher of the royal children and the court poet. It was at such a turbulent time that 19-year-old Nikolai Gogol came to conquer St. Various parties, circles and societies waged real literary and ideological wars. Vladimir (now named after Taras Shevchenko) was opened with a Russification mission in Kiev. The reforms were accompanied by barbaric interventions in the education system: first, Warsaw University was closed, then Vilensky and, finally, the Kremenets Lyceum, which, as they said at the time, was the main "hotbed" of Polish culture. In 1831, a special Western committee was formed, which tried to equalize the Western Territory (the territories of present-day Belarus and Lithuania) in all respects with the internal provinces. The main concerns of Emperor Nicholas in domestic politics then focused on strengthening the Russian principles in the western provinces. The uprising that broke out in November 1830 in Poland, which was then part of Russia, grew into a nine-month war, says Yevgeny Klimenko. Russian empire in early XIX centuries experienced grandiose events: the war of 1812 died down, the Decembrist uprising on the Senate Square was dispersed with grapeshot, a small victorious war with Persia, another military conflict with the Turkish Port was nearing the end, hot spots in the Caucasus continued to flare up every now and then, the country was shaken by peasant unrest.

ġ9-year-old writer arrived in the capital on time

Our expert, culturologist and historian Yevgeny Klimenko, who has been studying the development of literature and art in a historical context for many years, is convinced that it was not by chance that Gogol wrote and then rewrote his story. And its implementation provided the talented Little Russian successful career in Russia. Some researchers of Gogol's work believe that "Taras Bulba" is a political order of the era.
