Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol was born in 1809; his family belonged to a minor gentry of Ukrainian Cossack extraction, and his father was the author of a number of plays based on Ukrainian popular tales. He attended school in Nézhin and gained a reputation for his theatrical abilities. He went to St. Petersburg in 1829 and with the help of a friend gained a post in one of the government ministries. Gogol was introduced to Zhukovsky, the romantic poet, and to Pushkin, and with the publication of Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831) he had an entrée to all the leading literary salons. He even managed for a short period to be a professor of history at the University of St. Petersburg (1834–1835).

Books by Nikolai Gogol from Melville House

The Nose

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

Books by Nikolai Gogol from New York Review Books

Dead Souls

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol

Books by Nikolai Gogol from Steerforth Press