Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852) was born in Ukraine and moved to St Petersburg after his studies in 1828 to work, at first, in various government departments. His first collection of stories,Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka(1831), brought him widespread fame, and he went on to write further collections of stories, as well as the playThe Government Inspector. The first part of his great, and only, novelDead Soulsappeared in 1842. In his later life he was increasingly tormented both...
