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Gogol's mother called her son Nikola, which is a mixture of the Russian Nikolai and the Ukrainian Mykola. [12] As a child, Gogol helped stage plays in his uncle's home theater. [13] In 1820, Nikolai Gogol went to a school of higher art in Nezhin (Nizhyn) (now Nizhyn Gogol State University) and remained there until 1828. It was there that he ...
The characters of Bungo Stray Dogs were created by Kafka Asagiri and designed by Sango Harukawa. Asagiri noted that in the making of the story, the character designs were developed first rather than their plot lines, as the restrictions of the plot might cause the characters to become too flat. [1]
Fyodor's underlings Nikolai Gogol and Sigma rescue the two from the prison, but Decay of Angels member Nikolai gives the prisoner a test to determine who should be allowed to leave alone. He injects both with deadly poison and gives them material to choose from; Dazai takes Sigma.
[15] [16] Dostoevsky was greatly influenced by the work of Nikolai Gogol. [17] Although his father's approach to education has been described as strict and harsh, [18] Dostoevsky himself reported that his imagination was brought alive by nightly readings by his parents. [13] Some of his childhood experiences found their way into his writings.
"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.
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.
Gogol evokes common images of madness in his characterization of Poprishchin – auditory hallucination (the talking dogs), delusions of grandeur (thinking he is the King of Spain), and the institutional context of the asylum and its effect on the individual. In the second half of the nineteenth century, "Diary of a Madman" was frequently cited ...
Plyushkin, drawing by Alexander Agin (1846-1847). Stepan Plyushkin (Russian: Степан Плюшкин) is a fictional character in Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls.He is a landowner who obsessively collects and saves everything he finds, to the point that when he wants to celebrate a deal with the protagonist Chichikov, he orders one of his serfs to find a cake that a visitor brought ...