Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь, tr. Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol; Ukrainian: Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer. Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's... More

Date of birth:

  • Apr 1, 1809

Date of death:

  • Mar 4, 1852 (age 42 years)

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Also known as:

  • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol,
  • Nikolaj Gogol,
  • Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ,
  • Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol,
  • Mykola
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  • Person

Assessment:

  • Gogol was the forerunner of realism in the Russian novel.

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  • literature

Disciplines:

  • writer
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