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Nikolai Gogol
- Born April 1, 1809 in Sorochintsy, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]
- Died March 4, 1852
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 surrealism and the grotesque ("The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat," "Nevsky Prospekt").
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His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls). The novel Taras Bulba (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", round out the tally of his best-known works.
Known for
Black Sunday1960
Iron Mask2019
Forbidden Empire2014
Viy1967
Gogol. The Beginning2017
Taras Bulba1962
Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba2009
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka1961
Filmography
- TBAThe OvercoatFilmStory
- TBAThe Government InspectorFilmTheatre Play
- 2025Dead SoulsFilmNovel
- 2025HráčiFilmTheatre Play
- 2023CHOSTAKOVITCH, Le Nez – Bruxelles (La Monnaie)FilmBook
- 2021The Nose or Conspiracy of MavericksFilmOriginal Concept
- 2021Linhas CruzadasSeriesDramaturgy
- 2021The OvercoatFilmShort Story
- 2020Dead SoulsSeriesBook
- 2019Iron MaskFilmCharacters
- 2019Gli stivalettiFilmBook
- 2018The OvercoatFilmOriginal Story
- 2017Gogol. The BeginningFilmShort Story
- 2017The Shadow of Two Flies Upon a PinFilmStory
- 2017The OvercoatFilmStory
- 2017Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair (Komische Oper Berlin)FilmShort Story
- 2014Forbidden EmpireFilmStory
- 2014The SlippersFilmShort Story
- 2013The Metropolitan Opera: The NoseFilmStory
- 2012MarriageFilmAuthor
- 2010NesmrteľníSeriesTheatre Play
- 2010ŽenitbaFilmTheatre Play
- 2009Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras BulbaFilmNovel
- 2009The Tsarina's SlippersFilmOriginal Story
- 2008Diary of a MadmanFilmStory
- 2008The OvercoatFilmAuthor
- 2007The Russian GameFilmNovel
- 2007MarriageFilmAuthor
- 2006The Power of FearFilmNovel
- 2006ИгрокиFilmTheatre Play
- 2005Sorochyntsi FairFilmNovel
- 2005Case of the "Dead Souls"SeriesNovel
- 2005MystificationFilmStory
- 2004The VisageFilmBook
- 2004RevizorFilmOriginal Story
- 2004My GogolFilmShort Story
- 2003The Room at the Hotel in the City of NNFilmAuthor
- 2002The Inspector GeneralFilmAuthor
- 2001Evenings on a Farm Near DykankaFilmNovel
- 1999PorträttetFilmNovel
- 1997The Night Before ChristmasFilmStory
- 1997Major's NoseFilmStory
- 1997The OvercoatFilmOriginal Story
- 1997Diary of a Madman (After Gogol)FilmNovel
- 1996RevizorroFilmBook
- 1996ViyFilmNovel
- 1996Diary of a MadmanFilmBook
- 1992The Gamblers: XXIFilmTheatre Play
- 1990The Mask of SatanFilmNovel
- 1990A Holy PlaceFilmStory
- 1990RevisornFilmTheatre Play
- 1989SabbathSeriesBook
- 1988Dead SoulsFilmStory
- 1987A Terrible VengeanceFilmStory
- 1987Diary of a MadmanFilmBook
- 1987Noc pred KračúnomFilmShort Story
- 1985The Inspector-GeneralFilmTheatre Play
- 1984Dead SoulsFilmNovel
- 1983Mirgorod and Its InhabitantsFilmBook
- 1983Evenings on a farm near DikankaFilmBook
- 1983En Galnings DagbokFilmShort Story
- 1983HráčiFilmTheatre Play
- 1983The Land of MirageFilmOriginal Story
- 1982The Bosom FriendFilmTheatre Play
- 1982Inspector GeneralFilmTheatre Play
- 1981MarriageFilmBook
- 1979The Fern FlowerFilmStory
- 1979The Old World LandownersFilmNovel
- 1979The NoseFilmShort Story
- 1979Dead SoulsFilmNovel
- 1978Incognito from St.PetersburgFilmTheatre Play
- 1978MarriageFilmTheatre Play
- 1978PlayersFilmTheatre Play
- 1978Nella città vampira. Drammi goticiSeriesOriginal Story
- 1977NoseFilmNovel
- 1977ŽenitbaFilmTheatre Play
- 1977The Adventures of Vakula the SmithFilmStory
- 1976Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His AuntFilmBook
- 1974Inspector CalzonzinFilmNovel
- 1974PlayhouseSeriesTheatre Play