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Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
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culture · Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852) · novelist · playwright · historian · literary critic · teacher · poet · prose writer · opinion journalist · writer · librettist · also Nikolai Gogol, N. V. Gogolʹ, N. V. Hohalʹ, Gogolʹ, Nicolai Vasilievitch Gogol, Nikolay Gogol'
Born 19 March 1809 · Died 21 February 1852 · Q43718
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chose to model much of his writing, and even his appearance, on Gogol... What Sholem Aleichem was borrowing from Gogol was a rural East European landscape that may have been dangerous, but could unite readers through the power of collective memory. He also learned from Gogol to soften this danger through laughter, and he often rewrites Gogol's Jewish characters, correcting anti-Semitic stereotypes and narrating history from a Jewish perspective.
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“chose to model much of his writing, and even his appearance, on Gogol... What Sholem Aleichem was borrowing from Gogol was a rural East European landscape that may have been dangerous, but could unite readers through the power of collective memory. He also learned from Gogol to soften this danger through laughter, and he often rewrites Gogol's Jewish characters, correcting anti-Semitic stereotypes and narrating history from a Jewish perspective.”
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The New Yorker: Nikolai Gogol—Greek Paideia
The Guardian: The Government Inspector review – Tom Rosenthal stirs up Gogol’s political satire
National Review: The Stories of Nikolai Gogol
BroadwayWorld: Nikolai Gogol's DIARY OF A MADMAN Opens At Pushkin Hall
The Daily Beast: Nikolai Gogol Was Writing the Great Russian Novel. Then He Threw It in the Fire.
Indiatimes: Movie on Russian author Nikolai Gogol shows him as a detective
Gogol's short story "The Portrait" was announced to be adapted into a feature film of the same name, by Anastasia Elena Baranoff and Elena Vladimir Baranoff
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The Guardian: Russia and Ukraine renew rivalry over Nikolai Gogol
In connection with the bicentennial of Gogol's birth, the bust was moved to the museum at the Novodevichy Cemetery, and the original Golgotha stone was returned, along with a copy of the original Orthodox cross
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The National Bank of Ukraine issued a commemorative coin dedicated to Gogol
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Foreign Affairs: Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism
Literary scholar George Grabowicz argues that Ukrainian literature of Gogol's times was multilingual, with Ukrainian writers using Polish and Russian alongside Ukrainian
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An animated version of Gogol's classic surrealist story "The Nose" was made by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker, using the pinscreen animation technique, for the National Film Board of Canada
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The Soviets replaced the stone with a bust of Gogol
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Andrei Bely published the most meticulous study of Gogol's literary techniques up to that date, in which he analyzed the colours prevalent in Gogol's work depending on the period, his impressionistic use of verbs, the ex
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With Russia now ruled by communists, Moscow authorities decided to demolish the monastery and had Gogol's remains transferred to the Novodevichy Cemetery
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– a peculiar choice of subject for what was meant to initiate the great tradition of Soviet opera
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Vsevolod Meyerhold staged The Government Inspector as a "comedy of the absurd situation", revealing to his fascinated spectators a corrupt world of endless self-deception
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The statue received praise from Ilya Repin and from Leo Tolstoy as an outstanding projection of Gogol's tortured personality
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Tchaikovsky composed his version under the title Vakula the Smith (with Russian libretto by Yakov Polonsky) and revised it in 1885 as Cherevichki (The Tsarina's Slippers)
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Died 1852-02-21.
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“Gdyby ludzie byli mądrzejsi, nie byłoby wcale egoistów.”
“Geniusz, gdy tylko zacznie parać się dziennikarstwem, natychmiast staje się przeciętnością.”
“Idąc w gościnę, nie zabieraj ze sobą nudy.”
“Aleksandr Makiedonskij gieroj, no zaczem że stulja łomat? (ros.)”
“O milionário tem o privilégio de poder contemplar a baixeza desinteressada, pura, sem segunda intenção.”
“Czemu smiejoties'? nad soboju smiejoties'! (ros.)”
Under a new title imposed by the censorship, The Adventures of Chichikov
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The first part of Dead Souls was ready, and Gogol took it to Russia to supervise its printing
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Gogol was made Professor of Medieval History at the University of St
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Followed by two volumes of stories entitled Mirgorod in 1835, and two volumes of miscellaneous prose entitled Arabesques
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The first volume of Gogol's Ukrainian stories (Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka) was published under a pen name "Rudy Panko", was in line with this trend, and met with immediate success
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Gogol went to Saint Petersburg, full of vague but ambitious hopes
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Nikolai Gogol went to a school of higher art in Nezhin (Nizhyn) (now Nizhyn Gogol State University) and remained there until 1828
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Born 1809-03-19.
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Vienna's renowned Theater an der Wien commissioned music and libretto for a full-length opera on the life of Gogol from Russian composer and writer Lera Auerbach
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