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Particular attention in the article is paid to speech development through Gogol’s works. His literary productions are distinguished by variety of linguistic resources. Some exercises are devoted to poem Dead Souls and The Story of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich. They are characterized by speech variety: Gogol uses gradation, namely syntactical gradation, literature neologisms, humorous vocabulary, professionalisms, high and low words, popular speech, phraseology, antithesis and many other linguistic means.