Yakubina Y. Problems of forming of creative personality of Mykola Gogol and discourse of Gymnasia of Higher Sciences in his artistic heritage.

The objects are Gogol's creative personality, his biography, correspondence and artistic heritage, the complex historical, historiographical, archival and scholarly sources related Nizhyn life. The aim is to study the form making influence on social and cultural personality of the artist and artistic-aesthetic factors Nizhyn life based on the analysis of documentary sources, literary and critical works, epistolary heritage, memoirs, artistic heritage of Gogol. The methods are historical and cultural, historical and literary, typological, comparative, psychological, hermeneutic. Dissertation deals with Gogol's life and works during his studies in Nizhyn, in Gymnasia of Higher Sciences. The extensive range of different archive materials provided the prolific basis for complex research of effective influence of socio-cultural, spiritual and artistic factors which were formed by Gymnasia of higher sciences and the town of Nizhyn. They had a visible influence on students' worldview and particularly on Gogol's creative personality. This allowed looking at his works through the prism of his Nizhyn life, to mark and analyze basic concepts of his literary heritage as the result of his Nizhyn experience. In the situation of Nizhyn's ethno cultural space Gymnasia provided wide basis for business, educational, religious, cultural, personal contacts with the town, thus determining its discourse in Gogol's literary inheritance. It is seen in dichotomy "the capital - the province", in the theme of "important person", concepts of a teacher and the paradigm of fear beginnings of which are outlined in existential and Christian frames. Application spheres are the training courses.