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Daguerreotype of Gogol taken in 1845 by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (1819–1898). Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol [b] (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 [a] – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
The stories in Mirgorod were composed at different times. “Old World Landowners” was begun in 1832 when Gogol revisited his birthplace of Sorochyntsi after living in Saint Petersburg for five years, [4] “Viy” was begun in 1833, and “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich” had previously appeared in the almanac Housewarming (Новоселье) in 1834. [5]
The character of Taras Bulba, the main hero of this novel, is a composite of several historical personalities. It might be based on the real family history of an ancestor of Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Cossack Ataman Okhrim Makukha from Starodub, who killed his son Nazar for switching to the Polish side during the Khmelnytsky Uprising.
The Order of St. Vladimir, Third Class (Russian: Владимир третьей степени; Vladimir tret'jej stepeni) is an unfinished play by Nikolai Gogol, which he worked on between 1832 and 1834.
Plays and Petersburg Tales, trans. Christopher English (Oxford University Press, 1995) The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Pantheon, 1998) And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon, trans. Oliver Ready (Pushkin Press, 2019) The Nose and Other Stories, trans. Susanne Fusso (Columbia University Press, 2020)
The preface is the opening to the first volume of Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1831. Each of the segments is based on Ukrainian folklore and features comedic elements and a binding narrator, beekeeper Pan'ko-the-Redhaired, who is dictating the stories to the reader.
"Nevsky Prospekt" (Russian: Невский Проспект) is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, written between 1831 and 1834 and published in the collection Arabesques in 1835. Summary [ edit ]
Večer nakanune Ivana Kupala), also known as "The Eve of Ivan Kupala", is the second short story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. [1] It was first published in 1830 in the literary Russian periodical Otechestvennye Zapiski and in book form in 1831.