«Eternal co-traveller»: Gogol and Zinaida Gippius in critical prose

Unlike Merezhkovsky Gippius didn't write a voluminous work about Gogol. Her perception of gogolian theme, characters and the image of the author himself has been her main interest through her whole life. The rise of the interest in Gogol and his books was connected with Gogol and his jubilee at the beginning of 20th century, as was the case of some other writers at that time. It becomes evident from her articles published in the magazine «Scales» and newspaper «Speech», and later on from documental and memoirs prose. Her first acquaintance with Gogol in her early years in the town of Nezhin was a part of her home-reading, gradually he became her lifelong co-traveller, companion of her creative years.