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New York: New Directions. In April , Gogol returned to Russia from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and passed his last years in restless movement throughout the country. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol [ b ] 1 April [ O. On leaving school in , Gogol went to Saint Petersburg, full of vague but ambitious hopes. Northwestern University Press , History Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich.

Prosper Merimee also produced a fine sketch about Gogol which appeared as the preface of a collection of Gogol's stories. Gogol's story "Viy" was adapted into film by Russian filmmakers four times: the original Viy in ; the horror film Vedma aka The Power of Fear in ; the action-horror film Viy in ; and the horror film Gogol Viy , released in The first Russian intellectual to publicly preach the economic theories of Karl Marx , Belinsky accused Gogol of betraying his readership by defending the status quo.

The Beginning in August Gogol saw his work as a critique that would change Russia for the better. Retrieved 31 August Retrieved 3 April Completely unqualified for the post, Gogol missed his own lectures, and faked a toothache so he wouldn't have to interrogate his own students. Dead Souls , according to Bojanowska, "presents Russian uniqueness as a catalog of faults and vices.

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Russian Empire. Gogol painted him as supremely exploitative, cowardly, and repulsive, albeit capable of gratitude. Read View source View history. Associated subjects. Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Just two years later, in , Tchaikovsky composed his version under the title Vakula the Smith with Russian libretto by Yakov Polonsky and revised it in as Cherevichki The Tsarina's Slippers.

Tools Tools. Like Sterne before him, Gogol was a great destroyer of prohibitions and of romantic illusions. According to Ilchuk, dual national identities were typical at that time as a "compromise with the empire 's demand for national homogenization".

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Describing the two Ivans through bizarre juxtapositions, the narrator explains how the fatal utterance of the word gander gusak severed their friendship for good. Wikiquote has quotations related to Nikolai Gogol. Like Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Gogol sharply disagreed with those Russians who preached constitutional monarchy and the disestablishment of the Orthodox Church.

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