Biography of Gogol Gymnasium

The next page of the Nezhin gymnasium now, after the death of the younger brother, was even greater hopes for Nikolai. At all costs, he had to get an excellent education! Just at that time, a classic gymnasium founded by Prince Bezborodko opened in Nyzhin. With the help of Troshchinsky, Nikolai Gogol was determined in non -injoen among the pupils in state care, which freed his parents from training and boarding houses.

In the spring of the year, the father brought Nikolai to the gymnasium, where the boy did not like it immediately. But the holidays were not far off, so it was possible to tolerate. His future comrade V. Lyubich-Romanovich described his arrival: “He was not only wrapped in various scrolls, fur coats and blankets, but simply clogged. When they began to expose it, they could not get to the bottom of the puny, extremely ugly and disfigured by the golden boy for a long time.

” Yes, it is only in literature textbooks that geniuses are born immediately in the form of bronze monuments! And in life, they sometimes even get sick and there are ugly, frightened and unsuccessful. Gogol did not want to study. For example, before the control in mathematics, we will come to mom and say that, they say, somehow the throat hurts and in general everything is wrong.

And why in the 19th century everything was supposed to be different? Here the future classic tried to dull from the school: “Having arrived in Nezhin, the next day my chest began to hurt. At night, my chest hurt that I could not breathe freely. In the morning it became better in the morning, but my chest was still sick, and therefore I was afraid that there was nothing bad, and, moreover, I was very sad in separation from you.

” But the parents showed firmness, because they could not give him a good home education, besides, in the same year, another girl was born in the family - Anna. But the daily routine in the Nezhin gymnasium was such that it was really right to escape. We got up for half the hundred morning. They washed and in construction went to church in order to serve a prayer service before the lessons.

Then, rather, in the dining room to drink a seagull and for lessons - from nine to five o’clock in the evening. Lunch, of course, was. Dinner at eight, and nine, after evening prayer, please pay off the light and Bai-Bai. In the warm season, you could still stay in the park, but where do you go in the winter? And when to learn lessons? And there were a lot of objects: the law of God, literature, Russian, Latin on it had gogol and a few - he read a book under his desk!

In approximate behavior, Nikolai Gogol was also not seen, even read the cool magazine: “On December 13, such and Yanovsky stood in the corner for bad words; December 19, Prokopovich and Yanovsky for laziness without lunch and coal until they learn their lessons. The same number, Yanovsky for stubbornness and laziness especially - without tea. The same number, N. Yanovsky, for the fact that he was engaged during the class of a priest with toys, was without tea.

" At first, his comrades did not like him and even called the “mysterious Karl”. He was unexpectedly, but he was strikingly observant and sharp, stunningly imitated someone else's manner and features, so he could bring anyone, both teachers and classmates: “You know, Ritter, I had been watching you for a long time and noticed that you have not human eyes, but bull eyes.” And so every day.

The question is, who will like this? So the school hooligan and unsuccessful remained the only man in the family, moreover, the oldest of the children. After the death of his father, his younger sister Olga was born. And there were older Maria, Anna and Elizabeth, mother and grandmother! He mourned about his father, supported his mother, now felt responsible for everything and, probably, was a little proud of.

Now, in his letters, Nikolai Gogol tried to delve into all the details of the economy. However, where to go, I still had to ask for money for pocket expenses. Over time, real friends began to appear in the gymnasium, and all of them became, if not famous, then quite famous people-Alexander Danilevsky, Nestor Puppeteer subsequently the author of patriotic tragedies, Evgeny Grebenka Poet, who wrote in Ukrainian, Konstantin Basili and Author of Books on Turkey and Greece, Nikolai Prokopovich, teacher and poet Lyubich-Romanovsky poet, historian and translator.

It is no coincidence that all of them, having become adults, took up literature. Firstly, in the gymnasium they established something like a library where Nikolai Gogol was a librarian. He pedantically made sure that the books were not smeared or spoiled, forcing special attacks to put on when reading! And this is not surprising, because these books were bought by friends themselves at their own meager means.

Well, what is the gymnasium student! Literature lessons were nightmare, and Gogol with pleasure pushed P. Nikolsky, who taught this subject, for whom the standing literature ended, as usual, a hundred years ago. He did not want to hear about Pushkin and Batyushkov. Therefore, “Gypsies”, “Eugene Onegin” and “Poltava” were copied by hand to a notebook. Friends themselves also wrote poetry and read them to each other.

Once Gogol tried himself in prose.This is the ball "The Brothers Tverdovichi, the Slavic Tale." But friends smashed this attempt to fluff and came to the conclusion that this was clearly not his path. Here verses are a completely different matter! You understand now, why did he start with Hans Kuchelgarten?

So the first prose opus was sent to the stove without regret. Nikolai Gogol in such magazines could do everything from poems and prose to illustrations. One of these magazines was even material evidence in the midst of the scandal with dismissal from the gymnasium, which has already become a lyceum, one of the liberal teachers. Here, they say, what freedom leads to! And then everyone was carried away by the theater, and they themselves asked the director of the lyceum about his organization.

Parents helped with costumes and other necessary theatrical things. Gogol played so well that his friends were sure that he would enter the stage. He played so “undergrowth” to Prostakov that those who saw him in this role assured that even the actors of the imperial theaters were very far away. His luster at such a distance seemed especially irresistible, and difficulties are insignificant.

The career of the official seemed to Gogol by the elevated service of the Fatherland: “I will test my forces to raise the work of an important, noble one: for the benefit of the Fatherland, for the happiness of citizens, for the good of life like, and indeed he is indecisive, not confident and fair in myself, I erupt the fire of proud self -awareness, and my soul seems to see this unearthly angel, firmly and unknownly everything indicated in the meter.

A greedy search ... A year later, I will join the state service. ” Well, and we will go to Petersburg for our hero!