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Nikolai Gogol (ニコライ・ゴーゴリ, Nikorai Gōgori) Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu [25] (Japanese); Jeff Schine (English) Named after Nikolai Gogol. Despite showing a sadistic personality, Nikolai often hints he suffers when hurting other people.
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.
Osamu Dazai's look and personality were designed to contrast with the young lead, Atsushi's. His name is the same as that of the late author Osamu Dazai, and his personality was partially based on the main character from the television series The Mentalist. His backstory was also influenced by the real-life Dazai, as the author was captivated ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Arabesques (Russian: «Арабески») are collected works written and compiled by Nikolai Gogol, first published in January 1835. [1] The collection consists of two parts, diverse in content, hence its name: ″arabesques,″ a special type of Arabic design where lines wind around each other.