Author of quotes: Vladimir Pyatnitsky

One day Gogol was the Tversky Boulevard (in your view) and met Pushkin. "Hello, Pushkin, and tells you all the poems Yes I write poems? Come join prose write". "Prose only............ well," - said Pushkin.

Once Gogol gave the candelabra. He immediately put on his whiskers and began to tease: "Oh you, Lyra unfinished!"

Gogol once dressed Pushkin and thinking about the soul. He there decided, so no one found out. Just the other day, Fyodor Dostoevsky, God rest his soul, met Gogol on the street and recoiled. "What's wrong with You - he exclaimed, - Nikolay Vasilevich? You have a full head of gray!"

At Viazemsky was the apartment with the Windows on Tverskoy Boulevard. Pushkin loved to go to visit him. Come - and immediately jumped on the window sill, hang from the window and looks out. Tea him there too, on the window, I did. Sometimes there and spend the night. He even bought a special mattress, but he did not accept it. "What, - speaks, - such luxury?". And pushes the mattress off of the window sill. And then the whole night turns, does not sleep.