Abstract
The article examines the review of St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) about N. V. Gogol’s book «Selected Places from Correspondence with Friends» in the light of the categories of the soul and the spiritual. According to Gogol, literature should perform the same task as the works of spiritual writers – to enlighten the soul, to lead it to perfection. This is, to his mind, the only justification for art; its purpose is to serve as an invisible step to Christianity. In the Christian trichotomy «body – soul – spirit», culture and literature belong to the sphere of the soul. A peculiar result of the correspondence dialogue between two outstanding representatives of Russian culture, classics of Russian literature, can be the words of the New Martyr Archpriest John Rapture that such creators as Gogol, in their meaning in the history of the word, are similar to the holy fathers in Orthodoxy.
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