«Лествица» преподобного Иоанна Синайского в жизни и творчестве Н.В. Гоголя

The article covers the meaning of one of the primordial books in the monkish ascetics, i. e. «The Ladder of Divine Ascent» by venerable John Climacus, in a life of Nikolay Gogol, who both in his life and works made the hardest and most difficult way, which was the way of the ecclesiastical ascetics, i. e. the restoration of his own Divine Image and churching of his writings