Nikolai Gogol
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Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1809-04-01 (43 years old)
Deathday
1852-03-04
Place of Birth
Sorochintsy, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]
Also known As
Nyikolaj Gogol
Mykola Hohol
Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Микола Васильович Гоголь
Nikolai Gogol
Biography
Nikolai V. Gogol (1809–1852) was an Ukrainian and Russian novelist. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in his work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of surrealism and the grotesque ("The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat," "Nevsky Prospekt"). His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls). The novel Taras Bulba (183...
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