Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was born in Ukraine and arrived in St. Petersburg as a young man with literary ambitions and a talent for the bizarre. His early stories of Ukrainian folk life gave way to the surreal masterpieces that would revolutionize Russian literature: 'The Nose,' 'The Overcoat,' the play The Government Inspector, and the novel Dead Souls. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Dead Souls.