My past and thoughts, vol. 2 (of 6)

Note 38 — Chapter 26 Warnings—The Promotion Office—A Minister’s Secretariat—The Third Section—The Story of a Sentry—General Dubbelt—Count Benckendorf—Olga Alexandrovna Zherebtsov—My Second Exile

Constance Garnett translation

Kukolnik, Nestor (1805-1868), was a schoolfellow of Gogol’s, and a very popular writer of stories and dramas in the most extreme romantic style—fearfully bombastic and unreal, and hyper-patriotic.

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