The thirteenth volume of the Complete Works publishes Gogol's letters of 1846-1847.

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Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol

Complete Works in Fourteen Volumes

Volume 13. Letters 1846-1847

N. V. Gogol. Watercolor by A. A. Ivanov, 1841, State Library of the USSR named after V. I. Lenin.

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This volume contains 239 letters of Gogol (to 46 addressees), of which 26 were not known to V. Shenrock and were not included in "Letters of N. V. Gogol", volumes I-IV, St. Petersburg, 1901. For the first time, there is also a letter to A. O. Smirnova dated June 6, New Style, <1846> from Prague (No 30), which until now had been published only as part of "Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends" (under the title "What is a Governor's Wife") in a form revised by Gogol for printing. In addition, many of the letters (NoNo 8, 12, 36, 43, 76, 79, 101, 102, 113, 132, 134, 147, 148, 150, 159, 163, 165, 172, 185, 201a, 215, 232, etc.) are given in full only in this edition.

The text of most of the letters included in the volume is printed according to the originals (84%) and authoritative copies (3%), the rest are printed according to the most accurate printed texts. Thanks to this, it was possible to eliminate a number of inaccuracies and distortions that took place in previous editions. The dates of the letters were also clarified and corrected on the basis of postmarks and other data, and some of the letters were completely dated to another year. For the first time, many letters are supplemented with addresses.

The dates of the letters, given without indicating the style, are given according to the old style.