The Dialogue Belinsky and Gogol about warm sweet r

The Dialogue Belinsky and Gogol about warm sweet rolls


Belinsky to Gogol comes and says:

- What does it happen?

- I am a reliable writer Yanovsky, - Gogol answers. – I received pension from the Emperor.

- Well and that that pension, - Belinsky comments. - Especially as you "received". It in past tense. Now you have other situation.

- For you personally. Under a big secret to you, mister Belinsky, I will explain: while mister Paskevich "solves problems", there is no sense "to fuss" and "worry". You sit quietly. When Ivan Fyodorovich begins to leave a scene, and Nikolay Pavlovich will begin to resolve issues independently then events will go.

- Yes you that, Nikolai Vasilyevich, don't get acquainted with news? This, according your opinion, not events?

- I am busy with preparation of "Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends"!

- I to you in response will quote Krylov:

“There’ll be trouble if the cobbler starts making pies,
And to stitch boots a pieman,
And business won't take a turn for the better.
And it is noticed a hundred times,
That who  likes to undertake craft of others,
They are always more stubborn and cantankerous:
They are better will ruin all the business…»

- Krylov wrote about pies.  He didn't mention other products from flour! Pies will be baked by a cobbler. And to stitch boots – a pieman will be. Well, it seems as a pieman … Will solve problems – Paskevich.

- Do you, probably, joke?

- What jokes? Even if Paskevich will grow old, then Nakhimov will appear … So, maybe, they will also slip through the Crimean war …

The indignant Belinsky left the room.

Because of a back Belinsky has heard Gogol's words: "Then they will find Witte … And to stitch boots – a pieman will be".

Belinsky has gone to a bakery to buy warm sweet rolls.


October 21, 2018 19:53


Translation from Russian into English: October 21, 2018 20:34.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский “Диалог Белинского и Гоголя о тёплых булочках”.