Gogol cause of death biography

There are several versions of how N. Gogol died did not go crazy on the night of Friday to Saturday February after the next vigil, exhausted, dozed off on the sofa and suddenly saw himself dead and heard some mysterious voices. In the morning, in fear, he called the parish priest, wanting to take care, but he persuaded him to wait. He did not die of meningitis on Monday of February 11 Gogol exhausted from meningitis to such an extent that he could not go and leaned to bed.

He received friends who came to him reluctantly, spoke little, dozing. At 3 o’clock in the morning, from February 11 to 12, he called his friend after a hot prayer, ordered him to climb the 2nd floor, open the furnace valves and bring a briefcase from the closet. Having taken out a bunch of notebooks from him, Gogol put them in a fireplace and lit a candle. He was begged not to burn the manuscripts, but he did not listen to anyone.

Sitting on a chair in front of the fire, he waited for everything burned down, got up, crossed himself, returned to his room, lay on the sofa and cried. His friends did not hit himself with hunger to strengthen his trust in doctors. But nothing acted on Gogol, he answered all the persuasion quietly and shortly: “Leave me; I feel good. " He stopped taking care of himself, did not wash, did not comb, did not dress.

He ate crumbs - bread, gruel, prunes. I drank water and linden tea. Agony and death on Monday February 17, Nikolai Vasilievich, lay in bed in a dressing gown and boots and no longer got up. In bed, he proceeded to the sacraments of repentance, communion and excretion, listened to all the gospels in full consciousness, holding a candle and crying in his hands.

Gogol was dying he was half -halved in an armchair, throwing his head back, on a high back, stretching his legs on the attached chair. He raised his head when the doctor entered, but she immediately fell powerlessly. Gogol died on February 18, mental trauma, the first version of the death of N. Gogol was a mental trauma in connection with the fleeting death of his wife. Since then, he was in some kind of nervous disorder, which took on the nature of religious insanity.

And he began to starve himself. In addition, he observed strict posts. Therefore, we can assume that the cause of death was exhaustion. The epidemic of the typhoid of the typhoid second version of the writer's death was an infectious disease. After all, it was in the year in Moscow that the epidemic was rampant, namely the typhoid. Therefore, when examining Gogol, the doctors were immediately suspected of typhus.

But soon the doctors found that the writer was not typhoid, but meningitis.

Or the consequences of the wrong course of treatment of a pre -armpit of meningitis. In the year, Dr. N. Bazhenov published the work “Gogol’s disease and death”, he came to the conclusion that the writer destroyed the wrong diagnosis and treatment. Gogol’s mortal dream, to reveal the secret of Gogol’s death, experts revealed the writer's grave. At the autopsy, they saw that Gogol’s head was turned to the side and the upholstery of the coffin was all scratched, which means the writer wanted to get out of the grave.

It followed that the writer was buried alive. Due to many versions of the writer's death, scientists still cannot accurately establish from what exactly N. has died from what exactly it is possible that several more versions of the death of the writer will appear.