Bunin and “Anecdote about Gogol”

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.5-19.075

Krivonos Vladislav Sh.,

Doctor of Philology, Professor,

Professor of the Department of Russian, Foreign Literature and

Methods of Teaching Literature of the Philological Faculty

Samara State Social and Pedagogical University

e-mail: vkrivonos@gmail.com

This article delves into the origins of the short story of I. Bunin “Pan Mikholsky's Waistcoat” which was first published in 1932. The material and the literary source for it was an occasion that allegedly happened to N. Gogol in Kiev, and retold by the writer I. Yasinsky. The veracity of this occasion caused a controversy in the field of literature studies.

Keywords: N. Gogol, I. Yasinsky, biographical anecdote.