Censorship permission No 2 of the magazine "Sovremennik" with an article by Belinsky containing a harsh assessment of "Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends", this "perhaps the strangest and most instructive book that has ever appeared in the Russian language". "Belinsky's Collected Works in Three Volumes", Vol. III, p. 687.

February 16 (New Style).

Gogol notifies his mother that 2000 rubles will be sent to her and her sisters by his order. Letter No 118.

February 28 (New Style).

Gogol's requests to P. A. Vyazemsky and A. O. Rosset to consider his book (including passages not allowed by censorship) together with M. Y. Vielgorsky and V. A. Perovsky, in order to prepare it for the second, complete edition. Letters NoNo 120, 121.

January-February (New Style).

Gogol's first letter to the fanatic fanatic Rzhev Archpriest M. A. Konstantinovsky, which marked the beginning of the latter's disastrous influence on Gogol. Letter No 122.

March 4 (New Style).

Gogol's explanation with M. P. Pogodin about Gogol's review of him in "Correspondence with Friends". Letters NoNo 124 and 125.

March 6 (New Style).

Gogol confessed to V. A. Zhukovsky that the appearance of "Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends" "broke out as if in the form of some kind of slap in the face: a slap in the face to the public, a slap in the face to my friends, and, finally, an even stronger slap in the face to myself... In my book, I have swung such a Khlestakov that I do not have the courage to look into it." Letter No 129.

March 6/18.

Moskovskiye Vedomosti (No 28) published N. F. Pavlov's "First Letter to N. V. Gogol" with sharp criticism of "Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends".

March 29 (April 10)