Nikolai Gogol

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Birth Name: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Born: 31 March 1809 Died: 4 March 1852

Country of origin: Ukraine

Relationship Status: In a relationship

Partner: Iosif Vielhorsky

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Description: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin. 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"). 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 the Russian Empire ( ... (more)

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