Nikolai Gogol
Novelist, Author
1809 – 1852
Who was Nikolai Gogol?
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer.
Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism and the grotesque. 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, leading to his eventual exile. The novel Taras Bulba and the play Marriage, along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", round out the tally of his best-known works.
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- Born
- Mar 31, 1809
Velyki Sorochyntsi - Also known as
- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Nikolaj Gogol
- Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
- Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol
- Mykola
- Nyikolaj Gogol
- Nicolas Gogol
- Mykola Hohol
- Gogol
- N.V. Gogol
- Parents
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- Ukrainians
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Nizhyn Pedagogical University
(1821/05 - 1828/06)
- Died
- Mar 4, 1852
Moscow - Resting place
- Novodevichy Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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