Abstract
The article is devoted to marriage motives in N. V. Gogol’s creative work. The author reveals a through-going wedding metastory in the collection “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”. The further development of marriage motives in dramaturgy and St. Petersburg novels is traced. A new attitude to wedding and marriage, conditioned by social relations, appears in St. Petersburg city topos. In “Dead Souls”, marriage motives are developed in the novel chronotopes of estate, home, travel. In the narrative, the zone of the writer’s vision of the world of home, family way intersects with the perception of Chichikov, who acts as a rogue groom in the development of the wedding motive. The study states the key importance of the experience of creating the literary image of the family world of “Dead Souls” for the appearance of the profound generalizations connected with Gogol’s ideological position with respect to women’s destination in the society and in the family in “The Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends”.
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