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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.
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 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 Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" (Russian: «Повесть о том, как поссорился Иван Иванович с Иваном Никифоровичем», romanized: Povest' o tom, kak possorilsja Ivan Ivanovič s Ivanom Nikiforovičem, 1835), also known in English as The Squabble, is the final tale in the Mirgorod collection by Nikolai Gogol.
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 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.
"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 ]
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.