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1809–1852 Russia
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь) (1 April 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer, whose best known work is perhaps Dead Souls, seen by many as the first "modern" Russian novel.
Russia Novelists Playwrights Short story writers Also known as: Gogol, Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Dead Souls
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Dogs are clever fellows; they know all about politics [...]
Diary of a Madman (1835)
Why do I constantly hear the echo of your mournful song as it is carried from the sea through your entire expanse?... And since you are without end yourself, is it not within you that a boundless thought will be born?
Dead Souls (1842)
"Turn around, son! What a funny figure you are! Are those priests' cassocks you are wearing? And do they all go about like that at the academy?" With these words old Bulba greeted his two sons who had been studying at the Kiev college and had come home to their father.
Taras Bulba (1835)
Marchember 86. Between day and night.
Diary of a Madman (1835)
there is no word so perk and quick, which bursts from the heart with such spontaneity, which seethes and bubbles with such vitality, as the aptly spoken Russian word
Dead Souls (1842)
The gentleman lolling back in the chaise was neither dashingly handsome nor yet unbearably ugly, neither too stout nor yet too thin; it could not be claimed he was old but he was no stripling, either. His arrival in the town created no stir and was not marked by anything out of the ordinary.
Dead Souls (1842)
[P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.
Diary of a Madman (1835)
When the priest went in, he stopped short at the sight of this defamation of God's holy place, and dared not serve the requiem on such a spot. And so the church was left forever, with monsters stuck in the doors and windows, was overgrown with forest trees, roots, rough grass and wild thorns, and no one can now find the way to it.
Viy (1835)
Russia! Russia! I see you now, from my wondrous, beautiful past I behold you! How wretched, dispersed, and uncomfortable everything is about you...
Dead Souls (1842)
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