Nikolai Gogol
Mykola Vasylovych Gogol (Russian:Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь; IPA: [nʲɪkəˈlaj vʌˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈgogəlʲ]; Ukrainian: Микола Васильович Гоголь, Mykola Vasylovych Hohol) (April 1, 1809[1] – March 4, 1852) was a Russian and Ukrainian playwright, writer of novel and short story. He came from Ukraine. His early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian heritage and upbringing. He wrote in Russian. His works belong to the tradition of Russian literature. The novel Dead Souls (1842), the play Revizor (1836, 1842), and the short story The Overcoat (1842) count among his masterpieces.
Mykola Vasylovych Gogol Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь | |
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.jpg) Mykola Gogol by Alexander Ivanov | |
| Born | April 1, 1809 Sorochyntsi |
| Died | March 4, 1852 Moscow |
| Occupation | Short story writer and novelist |
| Nationality | Russian Empire |
| Period | 1840-1851 |
Biography
Mykola Gogol was born in Poltava governorate.
Nikolai Gogol Media
Daguerreotype of Gogol taken in 1845 by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (1819–1898)
Cover of the first edition of The Government Inspector (1836).
Commemorative plaque on his house in Rome
One of several portraits of Gogol by Fyodor Moller (1840)
Gogol's grave at the Novodevichy Cemetery, as it looked in 1952–2009.
The original design of the gravesite was restored in 2009. Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia.
Among the illustrators of Dead Souls was Pyotr Sokolov.
The first Gogol memorial in Russia (an impressionistic statue by Nikolay Andreyev, 1909).
A more conventional statue of Gogol at the Villa Borghese gardens, Rome.
Gogol burning the manuscript of the second part of Dead Souls, by Ilya Repin
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References
- ↑ "Mykola Gogol". Encyclopædia Brittanica. Retrieved on 25 December 2007.