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Selected Passages from Correspondence with My Friends

work by Gogol

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

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In Nikolay Gogol: Creative decline of Nikolay Gogol
…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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