Literary riddles: Gogol's pseudonym

NVGogol is not only the pride of Russian literature, but also its great mystery. He left behind hundreds of pages of brilliant works and dozens of secrets, which many researchers are trying to solve his life and creativity. However, how profound is the meaning of his amazing prose, and also the secrets surrounding the writer during his lifetime and the fantastical fleur that enveloped his posthumous fame.

However, the latter is not surprising. While still a student at Nezhin Gymnasium, Gogol received from his classmates the nickname "mysterious Carlo" - for his secrecy, his reluctance to share his intimate plans for the future, his dreams of high-profile fame, his dizzying career, his exploits for the glory of the Motherland. And, of course, the thirst for literary recognition, the desire to write something so significant, weighty that would put it on a par with the great Masters of the word - the idol of AS. Pushkin, beloved AA. Zhukovsky and other venerable writers of the time.

Gogol's aliases

Creativity Gogol - a striking fusion of brutal realism and breathtaking fiction, a soulful, touching tears to lyricism and making, also to tears, laughter satire, behind which lies deep, eroding soul anguish and bitterness. Beauty and disgrace, tragedy and comedy (everything, as in life) - all this we find in "Dead Souls" and "Inspector", in "Marriage" and "Nevsky Prospekt". Writer-satirist, mystic writer, writer-lyricist, standing at the origins of the "natural" school - all this he, N.V. Gogol.

Gogol's works, each line of them bear the imprint of his great talent. The writer possessed tremendous ability in several words, in two or three talking details to describe the essence of his characters, to expose, as in the palm of your hand, with all their secret corners of the soul, hidden thoughts. This feature of Gogol's skill was highly appreciated by Pushkin. No wonder he gave his friend two amazing ideas - the plans of the Inspector and the Dead Souls, realizing that no one else can cope with these anecdotal stories better than the young "Little Russian" with a soft southern reprimand.

However, the activity in the literary field of Nikolai Vasilievich began far from cloudless. The poem "Ganz Küchelgarten" is now a bibliographic rarity. Its author is someone V. Alov, and very few people know that this is the pseudonym of Gogol. The first pseudonym.

The poem was created in the spirit of the school of German Romantics and reflected the mood and thoughts of a budding writer at that time. He was filled with hopes and dreams of poetic glory, when the Northern Bee and the Moscow Telegraph released copies of his offspring. And even Gogol's pseudonym, romantic and poetic, was associated with his spiritual uplift: after all, Alov is a scarlet dawn, the coming morning, the birth of a new day, bright and clear.

Alas, the criticism was inexorably cruel, and the writer, fearing shame, bought up all copies of the poem, rented a room in one of the hotels in St. Petersburg and burned all the two bags of circulation "Ganz ...". Why he did this, because no one knew his literary name, for us it is not known. Most likely, Gogol felt responsible to art, to the readers and did not want to blur himself with obviously weak works. And before the contemporaries, who knew him and his family in Little Russia, did not want to blush either.

The second alias Gogol - a very realistic literary hoax. Rudy Panko, the bee-keeper, on whose behalf the "Evenings on the Farm ..." were written and published, the real literary debut of Nikolai Vasilyevich, brought him the first vivid fame and popularity, which opened doors for him to the best houses in Petersburg. Panko himself, as an eyewitness and narrator of the collection, is depicted so artistically that it's easy to imagine his appearance, way of life, even the voice itself. And on a visit he calls his readers, too, as a perfectly existing person! In addition, Gogol's new alias hints at the writer himself. "Rudy" in translation from Ukrainian, then Little Russian, means "red" (associations with hair color). A "Panko" - the name of Panas, Little Russian version of the Russian Athanasius, the writer's grandfather by father.

However, that's not all. "P. Glechik "," G. Yanov "and even the abbreviation" OOO "(Gogol-Yanovskaya), each of the signatures - is also another pseudonym of Gogol, which he used in the early stages of creativity. During the life of the author, a narrow circle of people knew about them: several friends and publishers. And only later, with a systematic in-depth study of the author's heritage and his biography, these interesting details were in the field of view of the researchers.

Interest in the work of the Master does not weaken over time. About him and by his works films are made, research articles and scientific works are written, he is one of the most widely read Russian authors. And this is also a manifestation of the mysterious phenomenon of N.V. Gogol!