Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian:Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь; IPA: [nʲɪkəˈlaj vʌˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈgogəlʲ]; Ukrainian: Микола Васильович Гоголь, Mykola Vasylovych Hohol) (April 1, 1809 – March 4, 1852) was a Russian and Ukrainian writer. 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.
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol (painting by Alexander A. Ivanov, unknown date)
Works
- Evenings on the hamlet near Dikanka (1831/1832)
- Part One:
- Preface
- The fair in Sorochinzy
- The Night of St John
- A May Night or The Drowned
- The missing letter
- Part Two:
- Preface
- The Night Before Christmas
- The Sundance Kid
- Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and his aunt
- The bewitched place
- Mirgorod (1835)
- Part One:
- old time landowner
- Taras Bulba
- Part Two:
- The Wij
- The story of the great scramble between Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich
- Master Novels
- The Nevsky Prospect (1835)
- The nose (1836)
- The Portrait (1842)
- The Coat (1842)
- The Calash (1836)
- Notes of a Madman (1835)
- Rome (1842)
- Comedies
- The Revisor (premiere 1836)
- The Morning of a Busy Man (1836)
- The Marriage (premiere 1842)
- The Players (premiere 1843)
- The Trial (premiere 1844)
- Dramatic fragments (published in 1842)
- The servant's room
- Fragment
- The Dead Souls (1842)
- Selected passages from the correspondence with friends (1847)
Reception
See also: GogolFest