Petersburg Tales

“Petersburg Tales” by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852) is a cycle of five works united by the setting — Petersburg. It is a city of deception and illusions, a city that tempts everyone who enters it, a city of contrasts. By... intertwining reality and fantasy, the author creates a whole gallery of portrait-images that combine into a unified picture of life. Here you can find everything: the splendor of the social life and the worries of the “little” person, their hopes and experiences, depravity, and madness. This is how Gogol saw Petersburg nearly 200 years ago, and this is how it remains today. It is precisely for this reason that the tales are still relevant and read with interest.
For middle and high school age.