Oblomov

Ivan Goncharov admired A.S. Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin", which determined his choice of the literary department of Moscow University. After graduating, he served as secretary to the Simbirsk governor, where he learned the mechanism of the bureaucratic system well. Then he became a translator of foreign correspondence in the Ministry of Finance, made a round-the-world trip on the frigate "Pallada", served as a censor, was the editor of "Severnaya Pchela" and again a censor, and of a conservative persuasion. It was in his hometown of Simbirsk that he saw signs of that "dream" that became a characteristic feature of the inhabitants of Oblomovka invented by the writer, as well as Oblomovism, which became a household word.