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    Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Gogol was born on March 20, 1809, in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. He attended the Nizhyn School of Higher Art, now Nizhyn Gogol State University, where he first began writing. On leaving school in 1828, Gogol moved to St. Petersburg to pursue his literary ambitions. His first collection of short stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, was published in 1831 to general acclaim. While his early stories were written in the tradition of Ukrainian folklore, his later stories, known as the Petersburg tales, established his reputation as a great surrealist and satirist of life under the Russian Empire. In his later years, Gogol lived abroad throughout Europe, particularly Italy, where he developed a great appreciation for Rome, and wrote the first part of his unfinished masterpiece, Dead Souls. He died in Moscow, Russia, on February 21, 1852.

    Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Gogol was born on March 20, 1809, in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. He attended the Nizhyn School of Higher Art, now Nizhyn Gogol State University, where he first began writing. On leaving school in 1828, Gogol moved to St. Petersburg to pursue his literary ambitions. His first collection of short stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, was published in 1831 to general acclaim. While his early stories were written in the tradition of Ukrainian folklore, his later stories, known as the Petersburg tales, established his reputation as a great surrealist and satirist of life under the Russian Empire. In his later years, Gogol lived abroad throughout Europe, particularly Italy, where he developed a great appreciation for Rome, and wrote the first part of his unfinished masterpiece, Dead Souls. He died in Moscow, Russia, on February 21, 1852.

    Books by Nikolai Gogol

    • Dead Souls

      Nikolai Gogol, George Reavey, George Gibian

      Paperback, 1971

      Part I of Dead Souls was published in 1842. Part II of Dead Souls exists only in fragments. The novel belongs to the great unfinished works of world literature (such as The Aeneid) whose...

    • The Night Before Christmas

      Nikolai Gogol, Constance Garnett

      Paperback, 2011

      Nikolai Gogol's hilarious and macabre tale of a Christmas Eve with a devil and a romantic twist.

    • The Overcoat: and Other Tales of Good and Evil

      Nikolai Gogol, David Magarshak

      Paperback, 1965

      With the publication of "The Overcoat" in 1842, Nicolai Gogol (1809–1852) inaugurated a new chapter in Russian literature, in which the underdog and social misfit is treated not as a figure of fun...

    • The Night Before Christmas

      Nikolai Gogol, Constance Garnett

      E Book, 2011

      Nikolai Gogol's hilarious and macabre tale of a Christmas Eve with a devil and a romantic twist.

    • Selected Tales (The Norton Library)

      Nikolai Gogol, Michael R. Katz, Kate Holland

      First Edition, Paperback, 2023

    • Selected Tales (The Norton Library)

      Nikolai Gogol, Michael R. Katz, Kate Holland

      First Edition, E Book, 2023

    • Selected Tales (The Norton Library)

      Nikolai Gogol, Michael R. Katz, Kate Holland

      First Edition, E Book

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