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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.
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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
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души Myórtvyye dúshi, pre-reform spelling: Мертвыя души) is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters.
The Russian TV-3 television series Gogol features Nikolai Gogol as a lead character and presents a fictionalized version of his life that mixes his history with elements from his various stories. [73] The episodes were also released theatrically starting with Gogol. The Beginning in August 2017. A sequel entitled Gogol.
"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
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]
Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) Dikanka Taras Bulba The Overcoat Dead Souls: Title page of the first edition of Dead Souls, 1842: Nozdryov from Dead Souls: Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891) A Common Story Oblomov The Precipice: Title page of Oblomov: Title page of The Precipice: Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) Mother Through Russia Stories of 1922–1924 The ...