Notes of a Madman. Petersburg Stories

Oh Petersburg, incredible and magnetically attractive! Here, more than anywhere else, you can notice how among the romantic roofs, your own one is slowly passing by, if you soar over the city with an enchanted soul. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol also soared - and then descended back, took up the pen, and began to paint its inhabitants. The master of words managed to make it "alive" - as if you could touch them and even talk to them. Of course, if their oddities don't scare you (a runaway nose, for example...). 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 Stories," as well as excerpts and sketches from Gogol's unfinished works of the same period.