Konstantin Mikhailovich Bazili (1809–1884), Gogol's comrade at the Nizhyn Gymnasium, later a prominent diplomat. He is known as the author of a number of works on the East. His article "The Bosphorus" mentioned in the letter was published in the "Son of the Fatherland" for 1836 and was included in a separate edition "The Bosphorus and New Essays on Constantinople", 2 parts, St. Petersburg. 1836.

Mokritsky, Apollon Nikolayevich (1811–1871) — Gogol's younger comrade at the Nizhyn gymnasium, class of 1830, later academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Danchenko — see note. to No 27*.

The Komarovs are apparently Alexander Alexandrovich, a teacher of literature, a close acquaintance of N. Y. Prokopovich, and his cousin A. S. Komarov (see I. I. Panaev. "Literary Memoirs", ed. "Academia", Leningrad, 1928).

Kraevsky began to publish literary additions to "The Russian Invalid" in 1837, and Gogol protested against the inclusion of his name in the list of contributors to this publication.

Kushakevich, Stephin – judging by the context, Prokopovich's corps colleagues.

Lukashevich, Platon Akimovich — one of Gogol's comrades at the Nizhyn gymnasium.

The comic couplets mentioned in the letter, composed by Gogol and A. S. Danilevsky in Paris on December 4-5, 1836, were published repeatedly; first by Gerbel in the article "N. Y. Prokopovich and His Relations with Gogol" (Sovremennik, 1858, vol. 67).

37. M. I. GOGOL.

Printed according to the text of the publication of the Vestnik Evropy (see below).

First published with omissions in Works and Letters, V, pp. 285-286; in full — in "Vestnik Evropy" 1896, book. 6, pp. 743–745.

My sister and my nephew are M. V. Trushkovskaya and her son Nikolai.

… I don't know whether it will be adopted or not. The proposed assignment of Gogol's younger sister Olga to the St. Petersburg Patriotic Institute, where her sisters Anna and Elizabeth studied, did not take place.