Synthesis instead of chaos. "Selected passages from correspondence with friends" as stylistic program of Gogol

The author compares the various points of view of the researchers to the style and poetics of Gogol, which was especially clearly manifested in the "Selected places ...". In "Selected places ..." Gogol sets himself the task of combining the high Church Slavonic language with vernacular, he "puts forward the slogan of synthesizing the" old and new ", in return for the chaos created by" romantic brave souls ".