The Nose with Illustrations

About Petersburg, incredible and magnetic! Here, more than anywhere else, one can notice how among the romantic rooftops your own soul leisurely rides if it ascends over the city with an enchanted spirit. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol also ascended — and... then descended back, took up his pen, and began to depict its inhabitants. The master of words managed to make them feel 'alive' — as if you could touch them and even talk to them. Of course, if their peculiarities, like a runaway nose, don't frighten you.... Just yesterday, you wouldn't have paid any attention to these people, but now you'll never forget them. And you will definitely recognize them when you meet... The book includes the famous 'Petersburg Tales', as well as excerpts and sketches from Gogol's unfinished works of the same period.