Who said "Vse my vyshli iz Shineli Gogolya"?

[Mitsu Numano]

Dear SEELANGERs,
   Could anybody tell me whether it is really Dostoevsky who said "we have
all emerged from Gogol's Overcoat (Vse my vyshli iz "Shineli" Gogolya).
As Dostoevsly specialists affirm, this famous saying does not occur in any
piece of Dostoevsky's oeuvre (including his letters) or in recollections
about him.  Dmitri Chizhevskii suggests that it could be the French
diplomat Melchior de Vogue who attibuted it to Dostoevsky.  If Chizhevsky
is right, does anybody know where Vogue said or wrote something like that
and how it spread not only in the West, but also in Russia?

Mitsuyoshi Numano
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The University of Tokyo
mitsu at symphony.plala.or.jp

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