Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (/ˈɡoÊŠÉ¡É™l,-É¡É"Ë l/; Russian:
Риколай Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð"оголь, tr. Nikolay
Vasilievich Gogol, IPA: [nʲɪkÉ Ëˆlaj vÉ ËˆsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtÉ•
ˈgogÉ™lʲ]; Ukrainian: Микола Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐ¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
Ð"оголь, romanized: Mykola Vasylyovych Hohol; 1 April [O.S. 20
March] 1809 â€" 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian
novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian
origin.According to Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolay Chernyshevsky,
Gogol became the founder of the literary direction of the "Natural
School" of the 1840s and had a huge influence on Russian and world
literature. Gogol's influence was ackowledged by Mikhail Bulgakov,
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Flannery O'Connor, Franz
Kafka and others.Gogol was born in the Ukrainian Cossack town of
Sorochyntsi, in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire. His
mother descended from Leonty Kosyarovsky, an officer of the Lubny
Regiment in 1710. His father Vasili Gogol-Yanovsky, a descendant of
Ukrainian Cossacks (see Lyzohub family) and who died when Gogol was 15
years old, belonged to the 'petty gentry', wrote poetry in Ukrainian
and Russian, and was an amateur Ukrainian-language playwright. As was
typical of the left-bank Ukrainian gentry of the early nineteenth
century, the family spoke Ukrainian as well as Russian. As a child,
Gogol helped stage Ukrainian-language plays in his uncle's home
theater.
Риколай Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð"оголь, tr. Nikolay
Vasilievich Gogol, IPA: [nʲɪkÉ Ëˆlaj vÉ ËˆsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtÉ•
ˈgogÉ™lʲ]; Ukrainian: Микола Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐ¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
Ð"оголь, romanized: Mykola Vasylyovych Hohol; 1 April [O.S. 20
March] 1809 â€" 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian
novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian
origin.According to Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolay Chernyshevsky,
Gogol became the founder of the literary direction of the "Natural
School" of the 1840s and had a huge influence on Russian and world
literature. Gogol's influence was ackowledged by Mikhail Bulgakov,
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Flannery O'Connor, Franz
Kafka and others.Gogol was born in the Ukrainian Cossack town of
Sorochyntsi, in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire. His
mother descended from Leonty Kosyarovsky, an officer of the Lubny
Regiment in 1710. His father Vasili Gogol-Yanovsky, a descendant of
Ukrainian Cossacks (see Lyzohub family) and who died when Gogol was 15
years old, belonged to the 'petty gentry', wrote poetry in Ukrainian
and Russian, and was an amateur Ukrainian-language playwright. As was
typical of the left-bank Ukrainian gentry of the early nineteenth
century, the family spoke Ukrainian as well as Russian. As a child,
Gogol helped stage Ukrainian-language plays in his uncle's home
theater.
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