Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) · CatalogNikolai GogolNikolai Gogol (1809-1852) · CatalogRussian writer born in Ukraine, author of Dead Souls and the Petersburg tales.
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Nikolai Gogol
1809-1852 · Russian writer born in Ukraine, author of Dead Souls and the Petersburg tales
Nikolai Gogol, portrait by Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller, early 1840s. Source · Public domain
About Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) was born in Sorochyntsi, in the Poltava region of Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, into a family of minor gentry. In 1828 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he worked briefly as a government clerk and taught history. His Ukrainian tales, Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831–1832), won the praise of Pushkin, and in the 1830s and early 1840s he wrote his Petersburg stories, including The Nose and The Overcoat, the comedy The Government Inspector (1836) and the novel Dead Souls (1842). He spent much of his later life in Rome and grew intensely devout; in 1848 he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Shortly before his death in Moscow in 1852 he burned much of the second part of Dead Souls.
"The Nose" is a comic story by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1835–1836 and published in 1836 in The Contemporary, the literary journal founded by Alexander Pushkin. It is one of Gogol's Petersburg tales, a group of stories set in the Russian capital that also includes "The Overcoat".
The Overcoat is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842 in the third volume of his collected works. It is the best known of his Petersburg tales and tells of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, a poor copying clerk in a government department.
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