N.V.Gogol in school: a comparative-historical aspect
The purpose of this article - to consider the main stages of school development of N.V.Gogol works (pre-revolutionary, soviet, modern) and compare the main problems of the study, the criteria for the selection of works, approaches to their analysis. The main sources used by the authors: curricula, programs, textbooks and manuals, as well as scientific literature, memoirs. The article summarizes the experience of studying literary texts of N.V.Gogol at different stages of literary education (single stories, the comedy «Auditor», the poem «Dead Souls»); the main methodological problems associated with the comprehension of the writer’s artistic world are identified; the list of works included in school programs and textbooks is noted; their educational potential is determined.