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Nikolay Gogol

b. 1809 — d. 1852 (aged 43) Sorochintsy, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]

Writer

Nikolai V. Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries 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", round out the tally of his best-known works.

Known For

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Les Âmes mortes

Filmography

Dead Souls

Noch pered Rozhdestvom

The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks

The Nose or Conspiracy of Mavericks

The Overcoat

The Overcoat

The Shadow of Two Flies Upon a Pin

The Shadow of Two Flies Upon a Pin

Diary of a Madman

Forbidden Empire

Forbidden Empire

Good to Be Back

Good to Be Back

From the Diaries of a Madman

Kentler Ve Gölgeler

Taras Bulba

The Tsarina's Slippers

How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich

Evil Spirit: VIY

A revizor

The Russian Game

The Russian Game

The Power of Fear

The Power of Fear

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live

Le culte du cheval en Russie

Delo o 'Myortvykh dushakh'

Sorochinskaya yarmarka

Sorochinskaya yarmarka

The Visage

Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat

Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki

Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki

Noch pered Rozhdestvom

Noch pered Rozhdestvom

To palto

Revizor

Viy

Diary of a Madman

Zapiski sumasshedshego, ili Zhitiye Aksentiya Poprishchina, titulyarnogo sovetnika

Dnes vecer hrám ja

A Holy Place

Terrible Revenge

Terrible Revenge

Diary of a Madman

Diary of a Madman

Mielipuolen päiväkirja

Noc pred Kracúnom

Dead Souls

Mirgorod i ego obitateli

Mirgorod i ego obitateli

Hráci

Délibábok országa

En galnings dagbok

De boezemvriend

De boezemvriend

Revizor

If I Were for Real

If I Were for Real

Elli Dehek Ala El Shayateen

Histoires étranges

Fern Flower

Inkognito iz Peterburga

Inkognito iz Peterburga

Zhenitba

Igroki

Nos

The Adventures of the Blacksmith Vakula

The Adventures of the Blacksmith Vakula

Jucatorii de carti

Mr. Carlis und seine abenteuerlichen Geschichten

Zenitba

Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka i yego tyotushka

The Government Inspector

Inspector Calzonzin

Inspector Calzonzin

The Travels of Chichikov (Manilov)

The Adventures of Chichikov (Nozdrev)

BBC2 Playhouse

Propala hramota

Propala hramota

The Nose

Revizor

Diary of a Madman

To theatro tis Defteras

To theatro tis Defteras

The Gamblers

The Government Inspector

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