Nikolai Gogol
Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
01/04/1809
Day of Death
04/03/1852
(43) years old
Place of Birth
Sorochintsy, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]
Nikolai Gogol
Biography
Nikolai V. Gogol (1809–1852) was an Ukrainian and Russian novelist. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in his work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of surreali... Read More