The first edition of the dictionary in 1865, Gogol lasted in 1852. It doesn’t fit.

Do not pay attention to such little things. After all, this is just a quote from the internet.
So you read the quote and it is quite possible to imagine how Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol opens the BSE, on the advice of Alexei Maximovich Peskov, to find out - how cyclotron is written, in order to win a long-standing dispute with Gabriel Romanovich Державиным on two talents of smoked design.