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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol ( - ) was a Russian short story writer, dramatist, and novelist born in the Cossack Village of Sorochyntsi, Ukraine. Part of the natural school of Russian literary Realism, Gogol later gained a reputation for his venture into the grotesque and surrealism, as in his short stories The Overcoat, The Nose, and Nevsky Prospekt.

Gogol had a strong literary upbringing: he learned Ukrainian and Russian, his father wrote poetry and was an amateur playwright, and as a child Gogol helped stage his uncle's plays.

He began writing while at a school of higher art in Nizhyn, where he earned the nickname "mysterious dwarf." He had a dark and secretive disposition, developed a talent for mimicry and satire, which eventually led to his exile from Russia.

Nikolai gogol biography of george Romantic theory exalted ethnography and folk poetry as expressions of the Volksgeist, and the Ukraine was particularly appealing to a Russian audience in this respect, being, as Gippius observes, a country both '"ours" and "not ours," neighboring, related, and yet lending itself to presentation in the light of a semi-realistic romanticism, a sort of Slavic Ausonia. Despite his portrayal of Jewish characters, Gogol left a powerful impression even on Jewish writers who inherited his literary legacy. He bought all the copies and destroyed them, swearing never to write poetry again. In his early stories, Gogol was inspired by Ukrainian folklore, traditions, and his Ukrainian upbringing.

His satire was unconventional and much more sophisticated than his contemporaries.

Gogol studied Ukrainian history, failed to gain a professorship at Kiev University, but in , he was made Professor of Medieval History at the University of St. Petersburg. Completely unqualified for the post, Gogol missed his own lectures, and faked a toothache so he wouldn't have to interrogate his own students.

He resigned in and began traveling through Germany, Switzerland, Paris, settling in Italy for twelve years where he studied art and opera, while mixing with Polish and Russian expatriates and exiles.

Gogol was in touch with the literary "aristocracy" and considered one of the first masters of the short story, along with Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Alexsander Pushkin.

After Pushkin's death in , Gogol reworked The Mysterious Portrait, and published the satirical epic, Dead Souls as well as his most famous story, The Overcoat.

Gogol was considered a great satirist who exposed the unseemly sides of Imperial Russia. He intended to write a sequel to Dead Souls, as a modern-day take of The Divine Comedy, but in he burned some of his manuscripts by mistake, "a practical joke played on him by the Devil." Gogol, of questionable health already, took to bed, refused food, and died nine days later.

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“Gogol, Nikolai Vassilievitch.

Born in the government of Pultowa, March 31 (N.S.), , died at Moscow, March 4 (N.S.), A Russian novelist and dramatist.

Gogol bordello Of all Gogol's stories, "The Nose" has stubbornly defied all abstruse interpretations: D. String: On the dissimilarity of the similar. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in his work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of surrealism and the grotesque "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", "Nevsky Prospekt". The aspect under which the mature Gogol sees reality is expressed by the Russian word poshlost' , which means something similar to "triviality, banality, inferiority", moral and spiritual, widespread in a group of people or the entire society.

He was educated in a public gymnasium at Pultowa, and subsequently in the lyceum, then newly established, at Niejinsk. In he was appointed teacher of history at the Patriotic Institution, a place which he exchanged in for the professorship of history in the University of St Petersburg. This he resigned at the end of a year and devoted himself entirely to literature.

In Gogol left Russia. He lived most of the time in Rome. In he wrote ‘Dead Souls.’ In he went to Russia for a short period in order to superintend the publication of the first volume of ‘Dead Souls,’ and then returned to Italy.

Nikolai gogol biography of george hamilton Like Sterne before him, Gogol was a great destroyer of prohibitions and of romantic illusions. Retrieved 12 December It was there that he began writing. Gogol was a Russian writer of Ukrainian heritage known for being one of the founders of modern Russian literature.

In he returned to Russia and fell into a state of fanatical mysticism. One of his last acts was to burn the manuscript of the concluding portion of ‘Dead Souls,’ which he considered harmful. He also wrote ‘The Mantle,’ ‘Evenings at the Farm,’ ‘St Petersburg Stories,’ ‘Taras Bulba,’ a tale of the Cossacks, ‘The Revizor,’ a comedy, etc.”—From The Century Cyclopædia of Names.

Prosper Merimee also produced a fine sketch about Gogol which appeared as the preface of a collection of Gogol's stories.

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