Title of the article:

Y. F. SAMARIN AS AN UNKNOWN ADDRESSEE OF “SELECTED PASSAGES FROM CORRESPONDENCE WITH FRIENDS” BY N. V. GOGOL TO THE 200^th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SLAVOPHIL THINKER

Author(s):

I. A. Vinogradov

Information about the author/authors

Igor' A. Vinogradov — DSc in Philology, Chief Researcher, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaia St. 25a, 121069 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: info@imli.ru

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2019

Volume

Vol. 54

Pages

pp. 197–212

Received

February 18, 2019

Date of publication

December 28, 2019

Index UDK

821.161.1

Index BBK

83.3 (2Рос=Рус)52

Abstract

The paper is to introduce a solution to one of the riddles of the final book of Gogol “Selected passages from correspondence with friends”. The problem is associated with an unknown addressee of an article published in a book with a controversial title “Near-sighted friend”. The author suggests and proves that the Gogol correspondent who prompted the writer in 1844 to write this answer was an outstanding and later the state and public figure, journalist and Slavophil philosopher Y. F. Samarin. The paper studies and establishes how the views of Samarin, who began his service career were reflected in Gogol’s article, and why an earlier unknown Samarin`s article dedicated to financial issues and Russian history caused such a sharp criticism of the writer. Gogol’s views are summarized as of one consistent Slavophil-“statesman”. The paper also identifies target orientation of the “Selected places from correspondence with friends”.

Keywords

N. V. Gogol, Y. F. Samarin, biography, creativity, interpretation, epistolary, journalism, Slavophilism, Westernism, spiritual heritage.

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