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Nikolai Gogol

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 126

TMDB ID: 1097807

IMDb ID: nm0324690

Known for: Writing

Born: April 1, 1809

Died: March 4, 1852

Age: 42

Place of birth: Sorochintsy, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1909 - 2025

Years active: 117

Average TMDB rating: 6.39

Wikidata: Q43718

Also known as

Nyikolaj Gogol • Mykola Hohol • Николай Васильевич Гоголь • Микола Васильович Гоголь

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Novel (28)Theatre Play (28)Story (21)Short Story (18)Book (15)Original Story (7)Author (6)Characters (1)

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Biography

Nikolai V. Gogol (1809–1852) was an Ukrainian and Russian novelist. 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.