UNKNOWN AUTOGRAPHS OF NIKOLAI GOGOL’S TWO ARTICLES ABOUT CHURCH AND THE CLERGY: THE HISTORY OF PUBLISHING GOGOL’S "SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE WITH FRIENDS"

Two articles of Gogol about Church and the clergy in author's edition are published in the writing. This allows the text of his book Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends (1847) to be presented for the first time in its entirety without any distortions. Gogol’s assumption based on archival sources that numerous censor corrections of his book were induced by the intrigues of liberal Western party rather than by the confrontation of the authorities, was evidenced.