Abstract
The article provides a detailed comparison of episodes from the works of N. V. Gogol and A. S. Pushkin, where characters of German origin appear. It is shown that Gogol to a great instant followed the Pushkinian tradition of depicting German types. Thus, the presence of the dream motif, the author’s irony and the destruction of illusions make the novels “The Undertaker” and “Nevsky Prospect” related, but in Gogol’s depiction it is a caricature of the Germans. The similarity can be explained at the typological and poetic levels. The images deduced by the authors largely predetermined the further approach to the disclosure of the German theme in Russian literature.
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