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Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol ( Russian: Николай Васильевич Гоголь) ( March 31, 1809 - March 4, 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer. Perhaps his best known work is Dead Souls, seen by many as the first " modern" Russian novel.
Gogol was born in Sorochintsi in Ukraine, but moved to Saint Petersburg in 1828. In 1831, he met Aleksandr Pushkin, who supported him as a writer and became his friend. He later taught history at Saint Petersburg University from 1834 to 1835. He went on to write a number of short storiesThe short story is a form of narrative prose writing that is characterised by the number of words contained therein. Determining the actual length of a short story is problematic. A classic definition of a short story's length is that it must be able to b set in Saint Petersburg, including " Nevsky ProspektNevsky Prospekt or Nevsky Prospect is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, written between 1831 and 1834, and published in 1835. The story begins with an introduction describing the Nevsky Prospekt and its population at different times of the day. The plot the", the Diary of a Madman , " The Overcoat ", and " The NoseThe Nose is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol, subsequently made into an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich. Written between 1835-1836, the story tells of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. Plot The story" (which was later turned into an operaThe Nose is a satirical opera by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It tells the story of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. The opera was written between 1927 and 1928, and is based on a story (183 by Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich ( Russian ) ( September 25, 1906 August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. His greatest works are generally considered to be his cycles of symphonies and string quartets, 15 of each. Since his death, his). However, it was his farceDefinition A farce is a comedy written for the stage, or a film, which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely and extravagant yet often possible situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, w The Inspector GeneralThe Inspector General is a comic, satirical play by 19th century Russian playwright and novelist Nikolai Gogol. Its plot concerns the arrival of a stranger to a small provincial town. The stranger is presumed to be an important government inspector, and t, produced in 1836, which first drew him to the public's attention as a writer. Its satiricalSatire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (individuals, organizations, states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. In Celtic societies, it was thought a bard's satire could have phys tone, which it shares with much of his other work, caused some controversy, and Gogol fled to Rome.
Gogol spent most of the rest of his life living abroad in Germany and Italy. There is evidence from letters that Gogol had a homosexual emotional attachment at that time, an ultimately rejected one. It is not clear how or if this affected his writing or the personal crisis later in his life. It was in this period that he wrote Dead Souls, with the first part published in 1842. (Gogol asked Pushkin for ideas about essential Russian stories; in response, Pushkin suggested the basic idea of Dead Souls.) In 1848, becoming increasingly religious, he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. After his return, under the influence of the priest, Father Konstantinovskii, he renounced literature in favour of religion. He burnt what he had written of the second part of Dead Souls ten days before he died on March 4, 1852 in Moscow. Some fragments of the work survived and have been published.
He is interred in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia. The photo is of the sculpted bust marking his grave.
