Selected Passages from Correspondence with My Friends

work by Gogol

Also known as: “Bybrannyye mesta iz perepiski s druzyami”

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Selected Passages from Correspondence with My Friends is a collection of discourses by Nikolay Gogol, published in 1847. In this work, Gogol shifts from his earlier satirical style to a more didactic and moralistic tone. He praises conservative institutions and offers advice on how to live a righteous life. This departure from his previous critical stance on Russian society was met with strong opposition from his former admirers, who saw it as a betrayal of his liberal ideals. The work is considered a significant, albeit controversial, part of Gogol's literary output, reflecting his evolving spiritual and philosophical views.1

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…iz perepiski s druzyami (1847; Selected Passages from Correspondence with My Friends), a collection of 32 discourses eulogizing not only the conservative official church but also the very powers that he had so mercilessly condemned only a few years before. It is no wonder that the book was fiercely attacked…
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…iz perepiski s druzyami (1847; Selected Passages from Correspondence with My Friends), a collection of 32 discourses eulogizing not only the conservative official church but also the very powers that he had so mercilessly condemned only a few years before. It is no wonder that the book was fiercely attacked…
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