Nikolai Gogol
Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
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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.
"St. John's Eve", also known as "The Eve of Ivan Kupala", is the second short story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. It was first published in 1830 in the Russian literary periodical Otechestvennye Zapiski and in book form in 1831.
“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 Lost Letter" (1831) is a short story included in the Nikolai Gogol's 1832 collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka.
“The Fair at Sorochintsï” [“Сорочинская ярмарка”].Short Story.· 1831.
"The Fair at Sorochyntsi" is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka written in 1829–1832 by Nikolai Gogol. Later in the 19th century the story was adapted as an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky.