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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.
English: This collection of portraits of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809–52) was published under the auspices of the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature for the centenary of the birth of Gogolʹ, a Ukrainian-born Russian playwright, novelist, and writer of short stories. The book is divided into two parts: an annotated list of the known ...
"The Old World Landowners" (Старосветские помещики, Starosvyetskiye pomeshchiki), a short story written in 1835, is the first tale in the Mirgorod collection by Nikolai Gogol. A bittersweet and ironic reworking of the Baucis and Philemon legend from Ovid 's Metamorphoses , it is a simple story that represents the mature ...
Across the pond, in a suburb of South Yorkshire, the long-suffering residents of Butt Hole Road couldn't take the jokes visiting tourists and back-side baring teens any longer.
First things first about Austin street names. My Sept. 3 "Austin Answered" column presented a primer of sorts on major east-west and north-south streets that run through the historic core of ...
The median value of the more than 17,000 U.S. homes located on a Coolidge street is $176,330, the only presidential street with national median home values higher than the December 2013 national ...
Mirgorod (Russian: «Миргород») is a collection of short stories written by Nikolai Gogol, composed between 1832 and 1834 and first published in 1835. [1] It was significantly revised and expanded by Gogol for an 1842 edition of his complete works. [2]
The description of the street ends abruptly, and the story shifts to the conversation of two acquaintances who have decided to split up to each pursue a different woman seen on the street. The first story told is of a young, romantic painter , Piskarev, who follows a dark-haired woman (whom he likens to Perugino 's Bianca [ a ] ) to what turns ...