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Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer whose work was strongly influenced by Ukrainian culture.
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 as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture, and folklore. His later writing satirized political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls). The novel Taras Bulba (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", round out the tally of his best-known works.
years of life: 1 April 1809 4 March 1852

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for the value of a book lies in its truth and its ac­tu­al­ity rather than in its word­ing.
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Some­how or other he had landed on his feet, and every­where he figured as an ex­per­i­enced man of the world.
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al­most every man has his hobby or his lean­ing; yet Manilov had none such, for at home he spoke little, and spent the greater part of his time in med­it­a­tion—though God only knows what that med­it­a­tion com­prised!

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