EfremychevaLarisaAlexandrovnaCountry: RussiaCity: SaratovCompany: Saratov State University, Russia, 410012, Saratov, Astrakhanskaya street, 83 Position: Sraduate Student, Chair of General Literary Criticism and JournalismE-mail: larisa_efr@mail.ru Author's articles Rumours in the Russian Traditional Proverbs and Sayings The ‘Acting Word’ in N. V. Gogol’s Novel Taras Bulba The Motive of Extemporaneous Rumor in the Chronotope of the Cycle by N. V. Gogol «Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka» Hearsay Motive In N. V. Gogol’s «Mirgorod»: Between the Usual and the Oustanding Rumour in St. Petersburg Novels by Gogol: Live Newspaper