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"Shinel'", "Nos", "Portret" i drugiye "Peterburgskiye povesti" Gogolya do sikh por porazhayut chitatelya svoim raznoobraziyem. Realism v nikh tesno perepletayetsya s fantasticoy, tragizm – s ozornym yumorom. Chitaya i perechityvaya ikh, my nevol'no sostradayem zhalkomu chinovniku Akakiyu Akakiyevichu, s uvlecheniyem sledi za fantasmagoricheskimi priklyucheniyami zazhivshego sobstvennoy zhizn'yu nosa, sbezhavshego ot khozyaina, perezhivayem tragediyu khudozhnika, ob manuvshegosya v svoyem "genii chistoy krasoty", – i snova i snova otkryvayem dlya sebya aktual'nost' Gogolya, kak nikto umevshego za chastnym i melkim uvidet' vechnoye i velikoye.