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Exhibition "Nikolai Gogol - the artist and thinker" to the 200-th anniversary of the writer will be opened in Russia State Library on Wednesday.
According to the press service, the exposition will feature the first and only lifetime collection of classic works in four volumes, which appeared in 1843 in Moscow and came out with a preface by the author.
The representatives of the RSL noted that a special interest in the exhibition represent the first publication of Gogol's works in anthologies and magazines such as "Son of the Fatherland", "The Moscow Telegraph," The Northern Bee, "and the first responses to them. At many publications - autographs of Russian writers, poets, including himself, and Gogol.
The exhibition also can be seen illustrated editions of Gogol's works, for example, world-renowned figures to "Dead Souls" Again, Boklevskiy, Sokolova, Kukryniksy and other artists.
"Day of birth of Nikolai Gogol, which falls on 1 April this year, is devoted to exhibition of graphic works of Yekaterinburg artist and teacher of Fine Arts Alexander Bartova" Introducing ...". Gogol's exposition is located in the House Poklevsky-Kozell ", - stated in the Sverdlovsk Region Local museum.
Works (about 20), executed in mixed media, present recognizable characters in "Night Before Christmas", "Via", "Dead Souls", "The Overcoat".

Official events of the Year Gogol start in Russia on his birthday - April 1.