Nikolai Gogol, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nikolai Gogol

Ukrainian and Russian writer

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1809

Place of Birth: Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 21-Feb-1852

Profession: teacher, poet, historian, playwright, author, literary critic, novelist, prosaist, opinion journalist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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About Nikolai Gogol

  • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin.Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries to be 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", are also among his best-known works.

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