Nikolai Gogol
Николай Васильевич Гоголь
aka 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.
