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Nikolai Gogol

Also known as Nikolay Vasil'yevich Gogol', Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, N. V. Hohalʹ, Mykola Vasylʹovych Hoholʹ, Gogolʹ, N. V. Gogolʹ, Nicholai V. Gogol, Nikolay Vasil'yevich Gogol

Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)

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Nikolai Gogol was a male writer, dramatist, and novelist active from 1827 until his death in 1852. He produced works in Russian, Ukrainian, and Arabic, contributing to literature, drama, and realistic fiction. During his career, he used the pseudonyms В. Алов, П. Глечик, Н. Г., and ОООО.

His nationalities are listed as RU, IT, UA, and RUS. Gogol is associated with 35 works and appears in 51 sources. He was born in 1809 and died in 1852.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Nikolai Gogol is referenced by 1,780 other articles, and connects out to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

It is catalogued under topics including 1809 births, 1852 deaths and 19th-century dramatists and playwrights from the Russian Empire.

Its subject is documented across 109 Wikipedia language editions.

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Sorochintsy, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]

Nikolai V. Gogol (1809–1852) was an Ukrainian and Russian novelist. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries 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"). His early works, such…

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Lifespan: 1809–1852
Nationality: RU, IT, UA, RUS
Role / Field: Prozaici, Escritores, Ecrivains, Dramaturgos, Dramatici, Literatura
Language: rus, ukr, ara
Gender: Male

Recorded by 51 libraries

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Nikolay
Gender: male
Citizenship: Russian Empire
Place of birth: Velyki Sorochyntsi
Place of death: Moscow
Father: Vasyl Panasovych Gogol-Yanovsky
Languages spoken: Ukrainian
Native language: Ukrainian
Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy
Notable work: Taras Bulba
Field of work: literary criticism
Genre: prose
Image: N.Gogol by F.Moller (1840, Tretyakov gallery).jpg
Coat of arms: Jastrzębiec

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influenced by: E. T. A. Hoffmann
place of burial: Danilov Monastery
Commons category: Nikolai Gogol
date of birth: 1809-01-01
date of death: 1852-01-01
topic's main category: Category:Nikolai Gogol
Commons Creator page: Nikolai Gogol
ethnic group: Ukrainians
pseudonym: ***
topic has template: Template:Nikolai Gogol
start of work period: 1827-00-00
birth name: Николай Васильевич Яновский
name in native language: Микола Васильович Гоголь-Яновський гербу Яструбець
has works in the collection: National Gallery of Art
writing language: Russian
end of work period: 1852-00-00
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
short name: Николай Гоголь

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Works in European collections

35 objects attributed to Nikolai Gogol, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.

Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt". These stories, and others such as "Diary of a Madman", have also been noted for their proto-surrealist qualities. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol used the technique of defamiliarization, whereby a writer presents common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so that the reader can gain new perspectives and see the world differently. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in contemporary Russia (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), although Gogol also enjoyed the patronage of Tsar Nicholas I, who liked his work. The novel Taras Bulba (1835), the play Marriage (1842), and the short stories "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait", and "The Carriage" are also among his best-known works.

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