Nikolai Gogol
Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
golden age russian literature
realism
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.Wikipedia →
Gogol was born in the Ukraine, then a part of the Russian Empire, and many of his stories (Evenings in Dikanka, Mirgorod) are set in a rural, Ukrainian milieu. His later work focuses on Saint Petersburg with the exception of Dead Soul.
Works
Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
Арабески
Arabesques
Миргород
Mirgorod
Ревизор
The Government Inspector
Игроки
The Gamblers
Женитьба
Marriage
Мертвыя души
Dead Souls
Петербургские повести
Petersburg Tales
Short Works (34)
“St John's Eve” [“Вечер накануне Ивана Купала”].Short Story.· 1830.
“May Night, or the Drowned Maiden” [“Майская ночь, или Утопленница”].Short Story.· 1831.
"May Night, or the Drowned Maiden" is the third tale in the collection of short stories Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. It was made into the opera May Night by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1878–79 and also a Ukrainian setting by Mykola Lysenko.
“Thoughts on Geography (Some thoughts on teaching geography to children)” [“Мысли о географии (Несколько мыслей о преподавании детям географии)”].Essay.· 1831.
“The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N--- Church” [“Пропавшая грамота”].Short Story.· 1831.
“The Fair at Sorochintsï” [“Сорочинская ярмарка”].Short Story.· 1831.