Nikolai Gogol
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Daguerreotype of Gogol taken in 1845 by Sergey Lvovich Levitsky (1819–1898)
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| Born | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 31 March 1809(NS) Sorochyntsi, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (modern Ukraine) |
| Died | 4 March 1852 (aged 42) Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery |
| Occupation | Playwright, short story writer, novelist |
| Language | Russian |
| Nationality | Russian Empire |
| Ethnicity | Ukrainian |
| Period | 1840–51 |
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (/ˈɡoʊɡəl, -ɡɔːl/;Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь, tr. Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol; IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈgogəlʲ]; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer whose work was strongly influenced by Ukrainian culture.
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 (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), 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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