Nikolai Gogol — Short Works

"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" 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.

"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 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.

"A Bewitched Place" is the last story in the second volume of Nikolai Gogol's first collection of short stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1832).

"Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" is part of Nikolai Gogol's collection of short stories Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka.

"Christmas Eve" is the first story in the second volume of the 1832 collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.

"A Terrible Vengeance" is a short Gothic horror story written by Nikolai Gogol. It was published in the second volume of his first short story collection, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, in 1832, and it was probably written in late summer 1831.

"Viy", also translated as "The Viy", is a horror novella by the writer Nikolai Gogol, first published in volume 2 of his collection of tales entitled Mirgorod (1835).

"Diary of a Madman" is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol first published in 1835. Along with "The Overcoat" and "The Nose", "Diary of a Madman" is considered to be one of Gogol's greatest short stories. The tale centers on the life of a minor civil servant during the era of Nicholas I. The story shows the descent of the protagonist, Poprishchin, into insanity. "Diary of a Madman", the only one of Gogol's works written in first person, follows diary-entry format.

"Nevsky Prospekt" is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, written between 1831 and 1834 and published in the collection Arabesques in 1835.

"The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", also known in English as The Squabble, is the final tale in the Mirgorod collection by Nikolai Gogol. It is known as one of his most humorous stories.

"The Portrait" is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection Arabesques in 1835. The story shares themes with some of his earlier works such as "St. John's Eve" and "Viy".

"The Old World Landowners" is a short story written in 1835 by Nikolai Gogol. It is the first tale in the Mirgorod collection. A bittersweet and ironic reworking of the Baucis and Philemon legend from Ovid's Metamorphoses, it is a simple story that represents the mature Gogol and hints at his later works.

Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852). It features the elderly Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his sons Andriy and Ostap. The sons study at the Kiev Academy and then return home, whereupon the three men set out on a journey to the Zaporizhian Sich where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.

"The Carriage" is an 1836 short story by Nikolai Gogol, one of his shortest works. The story centers on the life of a former cavalry officer and landowner near a small Russian town. After reading the story, Anton Chekhov wrote to Alexei Suvorin, "What an artist he is! His 'Carriage' alone is worth two hundred thousand rubles. Sheer delight, nothing less."

"The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol.

"The Overcoat" is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, published in 1843. The story has had a great influence on Russian literature. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, discussing Russian realist writers, said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat". Writing in 1941, Vladimir Nabokov described "The Overcoat" as "The greatest Russian short story ever written".