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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (/ˈɡoʊɡəl, -ɡɔːl/; Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈgogəlʲ]; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short-story writer.[2][3][4][5][6][7][4][8]
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Born | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-03-31)31 March 1809[1] (NS) Sorochyntsi, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
Died | 4 March 1852(1852-03-04) (aged 42) Moscow, Russian Empire |
Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery |
Occupation | Playwright, short-story writer, novelist |
Language | Russian |
Nationality | Russian |
Period | 1840–51 |
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Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism and the grotesque ("The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat," "Nevsky Prospekt"). His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), leading to his eventual exile. 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.