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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.
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.
1962: Taras Bulba, a Yugoslavian/American film directed by J. Lee Thompson; 1963: The Nose, a short film by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker using pinscreen animation; 1967: Viy, a horror film made on Mosfilm and based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name. 1984: Dead Souls, directed by Mikhail Shveytser
Shinyél’; sometimes translated as "The Cloak" or "The Mantle") is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story has had a great influence on Russian literature . Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé , discussing Russian realist writers, said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat" (a quote often misattributed to Dostoevsky ).
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"Viy" (Russian: Вий, IPA:; pronounced / ˈ v iː / in English), also translated as "The Viy", is a horror novella by the writer Nikolai Gogol, first published in volume 2 of his collection of tales entitled Mirgorod (1835). Despite an author's note alluding to folklore, the title character is generally conceded to be wholly Gogol's invention.
"The Lost Letter" (1831) is the fourth Ukrainian tale in the 1832 collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. The story is told by an exuberant narrator, the old sexton Foma, who will return with another story, "A Bewitched Place", in the next volume. It was made into an animated film of the same name in 1945. The lost letter
A stamp depicting "The Government Inspector", from the souvenir sheet of Russia devoted to the 200th birth anniversary of Nikolai Gogol, 2009. The corrupt officials of a small Russian town, headed by the Mayor, react with panic to the news that an incognito inspector will soon be arriving in their town to investigate them.