«Poor Folk» by F.M. Dostoyevsky: the first realization of the world’s dialogical model

The paper analyzes the creative reconsideration of Pushkin’s and Gogol’s works in Dostoyevsky’s novel «Poor Folk». Stories by Pushkin and by Gogol are opposed to each other as models of internal and external, human and inhuman, sentimental-subjective and natural-objective, traditional and provocative. Why does Gogol’s dimension triumph in spite of Devushkin’s preferences? By answering this question one can clarify the history of the formation of Dostoevsky’s dialogism.