Gogol biography how died

For example, he slept only sitting, afraid that he would not be mistaken for the dead. He took long walks on periodically falling into a state of prolonged numbness. And the death of the great writer was mysterious: either he died of poisoning, either from cancer, or from mental illness. Doctors have been unsuccessfully trying to make an accurate diagnosis for more than one and a half centuries.

A strange child of the future author of Dead Souls was born in a dysfunctional from the point of view of heredity to the family. His grandfather and his grandmother were superstitious, religious, believed in signs and predictions. One of the aunts was completely “weak on my head”: she could lubricate her head with a sebaceous candle for weeks to prevent her hair, built faces, sitting at the dining table, hid pieces of bread under the mattress.

When a baby was born in this year in this family, everyone decided that the boy would not last long - he was so weak. But the child survived, he, however, was thin, puny and painful - in a word, from those very "lucky ones" to which all sores are sticking. At first, Soldukha became attached, then scarlet fever, followed by purulent otitis media. All this is against the backdrop of impenating colds.

But the main disease of Gogol, who bothered him almost all his life, was manic-depressive psychosis. It is not surprising that the boy grew up and low -communal. According to the memoirs of his fellow practitioners on the Nezhin Lyceum, he was a sullen, stubborn and very secretive teenager. And only a brilliant game at the Lyceum Theater said that this person has remarkable acting talent.

In the year, Gogol comes to St. Petersburg in order to make a career. Not wanting to work with a small official, he decides to enter the stage. But unsuccessfully. I had to get a job with a clerk. However, Gogol did not linger in one place for a long time - he flew from the department to the department. The people with whom he at that time communicated close to his moodiness, insincerity, coldness, inattention to the owners and difficult to explain oddities despite official hardships, this period of life was the happiest for the writer.

He is young, full of ambitious plans, his first book “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka” is published. Gogol meets Pushkin, which is terribly proud of. Rotates in secular circles. But already at that time, some oddities in the behavior of a young man began to notice in St. Petersburg salons. Where to put yourself? Throughout his life, Gogol complained of stomach pain.

However, this did not interfere with him for one sitting to eat dinner for four, “polishing” all this with a jar of jam and a basket of cookies. It is no wonder that since summer age the writer suffered chronic hemorrhoids with strong exacerbations. For this reason, he never worked sitting. He wrote exclusively standing, spending on his feet a clock a day. As for relations with the opposite sex, this is a secret behind seven seals.

Even in the year, he sent his mother a letter in which he spoke of a terrible love for some lady. But already in the next message, you are words about the girl, only a boring description of a rash, which, according to him, is nothing more than a consequence of a children's gold. Having tied the girl with a sore, Mother concluded that her son picked up a shameful illness from some kind of metropolitan spiker.

In fact, both Gogol invented both love and ailment in order to extract a certain amount of money from the parent whether the writer had carnal contacts with women - a big question. According to the testimony of the doctor who observed Gogol, there were no such. The fault is a kind of castration complex - in other words, a weak attraction. And this despite the fact that Nikolai Vasilievich loved sloppy jokes and knew how to tell them, completely not lowering obscene words.

While the attacks of mental illness were undoubtedly obvious. The first clinically defined attack of depression, which took the writer “almost a year of life”, was noted in the year. Starting from the year, bouts of different duration and severity began to be observed regularly. Gogol complained about longing, "which there is no description" and from which he did not know, "where to put himself." He complained that his “Soul because of this Gogol could not only create, but also think.

Hence the complaints about the "eclipse of memory" and "strange inaction of the mind." Attacks of religious enlightenment were replaced by fear and despair. They encouraged Gogol to fulfill Christian exploits. One of them is the exhaustion of the body - and led the writer to death. The subtleties of the soul and body Gogol died in the year of life. Doctors who treated him in recent years have been in complete bewilderment about his illness.

The version of depression was nominated with the fact that at the beginning of the year the sister of one of Gogol’s close friends - Ekaterina Khomyakova, who the writer respected to the core, died. Her death provoked the strongest depression, which spilled into religious ecstasy. Gogol began to fast. His daily diet was spoonful of cabbage brine and oat broth, occasionally the fruits of prunes.Considering that the body of Nikolai Vasilyevich was weakened after the illness - in the year he was ill with malaria encephalitis, and to M transferred the cholera and miraculously - starvation was deadly for him.

Gogol then lived in Moscow, on the ground floor of the house of Count Tolstoy, his friend. On the night of February 24, he burned the second volume of Dead Souls. After 4 days, Gogol was visited by a young doctor Alexei Terentyev. He described the condition of the writer as follows: “He watched as a person for whom all tasks are solved, every feeling fell silent, all words are in vain his whole body to extremes losing weight; The eyes became dim and fell, the face was completely haggard, the cheeks burst, the voice weakened spoke of the “kishka Qatar”, which moved to the “typhoid”, about the unfavorable gastroenteritis.

And, finally, about the “indigestion of the stomach”, complicated by “inflammation”. As a result, the doctors made him a diagnosis - meningitis - and prescribed the bloodletting deadly in this state, hot baths and pouring the miserable withered body of the writer plunged into the bath, their head was watered with cold water. He was given leeches, and he frantically tried to brush the clusters of the black worms with a weak hand, which sucked in his nostrils.

But could you come up with the worst torture for a person who had experienced disgust all his life in front of all creeps and slimy? He was not allowed to do it. After a few days, the writer was gone. So what caused death? It is unlikely. The witness of the last hours of Gogol’s life, Feldsher Zaitsev said that a day before the death, the writer was in clear memory and common sense.

Having calmed down after the “healing” tortures, he talked with him friendly, asked about life, made even amendments in poetry written by Zaitsev to death of his mother. Or was there any infectious disease? In Moscow, in the winter of the year, an epidemic of typhoid fever was rampant, from which, by the way, Khomyakova died. That is why the attending physician at the first examination suspected that the writer was Tif.

But a week later, the consultation of doctors, convened by Count Tolstoy, announced that Gogol was not typhoid, but meningitis. According to the description of the symptoms of Gogol's disease, he diagnosed: the great writer died of pancreatic cancer. Hence this emaciation Nikolai Vasilievich, up to the point that the spine was felt through his stomach.

And a complete refusal of food due to the inability to swallow even a small piece. However, there is a version that the writer was poisoned by mercury - the main component of Kalomel, which was stuffed with Gogol, everyone who began to treat the Aesculapius. But there were no pathologists at that time. Therefore, the true cause of the death of Nikolai Vasilyevich we, apparently, do not recognize.