Gogol nikolai biography
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Biography
1809 - 1852
“You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.”
– Nikolai Gogol
Born in the Ukraine, in 1828 Nikolai Gogol moved to St. Petersburg with the intention of becoming a full time writer. His first important literary contribution were the two volumes collection of folk and ghost tales set in the Ukraine entitled Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831-32) which made him one of the nation’s most promising young writers.Three years later he wrote two collections of stories Arabesques and Mirigod which were also well received. The following year he wrote the farcical play "The Inspector General" which lampooned government bureaucracy and although enjoyed by Tsar Nicholas I as well as the public, it generated enough controversy to prompt Gogol to flee the country. It was during his five years living in Rome that he wrote the masterpiece Dead Souls (1842). His collected stories were released the same year were met with great acclaim. Around this time Gogol returned to Russia and became increasingly under the sway of conservative Orthodox Christianity and was intent on establishing a spiritual message in his work. He wrote Selected Passages from a Correspondence with My Friends (1847), a dogmatic Q & A catechism less
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Nikolai Gogol is one of Russia’s most famous writers, renowned for his short stories, novels, and plays. Vladimir Nabokov called him “the strangest prose-poet Russia ever produced.” Scholars Dmytro Chyzhevsky and Danylo Husar Struk say of his writing, “Gogol's works display different variations of the Romantic style and a masterly use of metaphor, hyperbole, and ironic grotesque. His language is exceptionally rhythmic and euphonic. He was the first writer of the so-called Ukrainian school in Russian literature to employ a host of lexical and syntactic Ukrainianisms, primarily to play with various stylistic levels from the vulgar to the pathetic.”
Gogol was born on March 31, 1809 in the Poltava province in Ukraine. While his family name was Ianovskii, his grandfather took “Gogol” to connect him to his Cossack ancestry. His father was a minor Ukrainian noble who also wrote, and his mother was a religious woman who passed such spiritual concerns down to her son.
An unpopular child who was nicknamed “the mysterious dwarf,” Nikolai attended a boarding school and Nezhin secondary school. After he graduated, he went to St. Petersburg hoping to make it as a writer and actor. He took a few low-level government job
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Nikolay Author
Born: Sorochyntsi, Poltava Governate - 31 March 1809
Died: Moscow - 4 Parade 1852
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