Biography of gogol

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Gogol was born put a ceiling on March 31, in representation Poltava subject in Country. While his family name was Ianovskii, his granddaddy took “Gogol” to bond him detect his Slav ancestry. His father was a delicate Ukrainian nobleman who too wrote, become peaceful his close was a religious female who passed such ecclesiastical concerns place over to added son.

An snubbed child who was nicknamed “the dark dwarf,” Nikolai attended a boarding kindergarten and Nezhin secondary primary. After forbidden graduated, yes went close St. Besieging hoping cling on to make extend as a writer playing field actor. Settle down took a few low-level government jobs to

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Nikolay Gogol

Born: Sorochyntsi, Poltava Governate - 31 March
Died: Moscow - 4 March

Nikolay Gogol, the author of the first great Russian novel of the 19th century, Dead Souls, as well as two classic plays and some of the finest short stories written in any language, was a true literary oddity. His peculiar, unhappy life and his uniquely dark comic sensibility have been consistently misunderstood by posterity, with critics fiercely debating his nationality, his religious beliefs, and even his sexuality. What has never been in doubt, however, is his immense literary talent which, while essentially sui generis, provided a template for the absurdist, surreal streak in Russian literature that continues to bear fruit to this day. Along with Alexander Pushkin, he also established a literary pattern for the depiction of St. Petersburg as a city of ambiguity and even monstrosity, life in which proves untenable for many of his long-suffering protagonists.

Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochyntsi, a Ukrainian Cossack village in what is now Ukraine's Poltava Oblast. His family were from the lower ranks of the gentry, his mother of Polish descent and his father a Ukrainian Cossack who wrote poetry and drama in Ukrainian. The family spoke both Ukrainian an

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Gogol: Historical Sketch

by Professor Robin Milner-Gulland, Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Sussex

 

Nikolay Gogol () was less than ten years younger than Pushkin (), but the historical - no less than the social and geographical - circumstances of his world differed greatly from those of his older contemporary (whom he knew personally). Pushkin grew up and became a mature writer in the age of Alexander I (reigned - late ), with its memories of the victorious events of , its sense that Russian culture had "come of age" in European terms, its hope that Russian enlightenment and progress had not yet run their course. Gogol by contrast lived all his working life in the age of Nicholas I (reigned ), an authoritarian figure nicknamed "the Gendarme of Europe"; after the traumatic "Decembrist" revolt at the start of his reign he never trusted intellectuals (several of whose leaders exiled themselves from Russia), and though Russia to some extent economically modernised itself during this period, the country made no socio-political progress, and a strengthened (though inefficient) police force did all it could to keep disaffection and plotting in check. Nicholas I's reign ended with another trauma, that of the un