«Приезжий во всем как-то умел найтись...» (Хрисолог Ж.-Б. Руссо и Чичиков Н.В. Гоголя)

The article focuses on Jean-BaptisteRousseau’s epigram «Chrysologue toujours opine...» as a possible source or a model of the fragment from
N. Gogol’s «Dead Souls» about a phenomenal ability of Pavel Chichikov to talk on any different subjects in the provincial town of N.