"Even so come, lord Jesus": Nikolai Gogol’s depart as his bequest to descendants
The article attempts to recreate the events of Nikolai Gogol’s last days based on reliable well-documented facts, to answer the questions compulsory for making the writer’s academic biography. The article clarifies the Church Slavonic semantics of the word “requirement” in the margin of Gogol’s Bible opposite to Saint Apostle Paul’s words “I am … having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ” (Phil. 1: 23). The words “Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Rev. 22:20) engraved on Gogol’s tombstone undoubtedly express the most important in his life and works, i. e. his endeavor to acquire the Holy Spirit and prepare his soul to encounter with the Lord.