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Born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine. Spent childhood in his Father's estate. 

Great Russian novelist, dramatist, satirist, founder of critical realism in Russian literature. Gogol's fatherwas also a writer; his works, many of which were written for the Ukrainian puppet theater, are in Ukrainian, and he is classed as a Ukrainian writer.  His son, however, decided to write in Russian.Nikolai Gogol moved to St. Petersburg in 1828 with the intention of becoming a full-time professional writer.



His first published work, a long narrative in verse, was received with indifference by the critics, and the sensitive Gogol fled from Russia in shame.

Gogol's first important literary work was published in two parts in 1831 and 1832. It is a bunch of short stories called Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. (Gogol had greatly admired Pushkin, and he used in this work the same narrative device as Pushkin had in Tales of Belkin.)

These stories promoted Gogol from obscurity to a position as one of the nation's leading young writers. After a career change to university teaching, Gogol returned to literature in 1835 with Mirgorod, a collection of stories with Ukrainian background. Over the next seven years, Gogol published a number of stories with a St. Petersburg setting, the last in 1842 being Gogol's most famous story, "The Overcoat."

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The original pokerface^brought to you by Nikolay Gogol.

NIkoli's Great Great Granddaughter...looking for inspiration in a trashcan.

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