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The article examines the background of N.V. Gogol’s acquaintance with M.P. Pogodin and the circumstances of their first meeting in the summer of 1832. Attention is drawn not only to the importance of this meeting for Gogol, who naturally sought to get acquainted with the publisher of the Moskovsky Vestnik magazine, which he read while still in high school, but also to some of the life circumstances of the older and already quite influential Pogodin, which could serve as the reason for his counter-interested attitude towards Gogol and contributed to the fact that He saw in the aspiring writer a future colleague, a historian and a university professor.. Already at the first meeting in July 1832, a significant coincidence of interests between Gogol and Pogodin was revealed, which served as their rapid rapprochement, but the beginning was laid for those lines of development of their relations, perhaps the most dramatic in the biography of the writer, which, stretching through many years, eventually revealed the divergence of their life and professional positions.