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BIOGRAPHY
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, novelist and playwright, was born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine. His father was a poet and playwright. He was educated at Poltava boarding school and Nezhin high school. He worked in various government jobs and for three years taught at the Patriotic Institute. A year later he became a full-time writer.
Gogol published his first work, GANTS KYUHELGARTEN, when he was 20. He is most famous for THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, a play published in 1836. Another important work of his is THE DEAD SOULS.
Nikolai Gogol died in Moscow in 1852.
CHRONOLOGY
1809 He was born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine. (March 19)
1819 He entered Poltava boarding school.
1821 He entered Nezhin high school
1829 GANTS KYUHELGARTEN; He moved to St. Petersburg.
1831 He began teaching at the Patriotic Institute.; He met Aleksandr pushkin.
1832 VECHERA NA KHUTORE BLIZ DIKAN'KI (EVENINGS ON A FARM NEAR DIKANKA)
1834 He worked as an assistant lecturer at the University of St. Petersburg.
1835 MIRGOROD; ARABESKI; TARAS BULBA; ZAPISKI SUMMASSEDSHEGO; NEVSKI PROSPEKT; He beame a full-time writer.
1836 NOS (THE NOSE); REVIZOR (THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR); KOLIASKA (THE COACH); He published stories in the journal SOVREMENNIK.
1842 SHINEL (THE OVERCOAT); SOCHINENII; PORTRET (THE PORTRAIT); RIN (ROME); ZHENITBA (THE MARRIAGE)
1843 IGROGI (THE GAMBLERS)
1846 MERTVYE DUSHI I-II (DEAD SOULS)
1847 VYBRANNYYE MESTA IZ PEREPISKI S DRUZYAMI (SELECTED PASSAGES FROM CORRESPONDENCE WITH MY FRIEND)
1852 He died in Moscow. (March 4)
1913 THE DIVINE LITURGIA OF THE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH)
1927 COLLECTED WORKS, 1922-27 (6 vols)
1952 POLNOE SOBRANIE SOCHINENII, 1927-52, 14 vols.
1964 THE COLLECTED TALES AND PLAYS
1967 LETTERS OF NIKOLAI GOGOL
1972 THE DIARY OF A MADMAN AND OTHER STORIES
1974 AVTORSKAIA ISPOVED (AN AUTHOR'S CONFESSION)
1986 SOBRANIE SOCHINENII, 1984-86, 8 vols.
1985 THE COMPLETE TALES
1990 HANZ KUECHELGARTEN, LEAVING THE THEATER AND OTHER WORKS
1994 VILLAGE EVENINGS NEAR DIKANSKA AND MIRGOROD
1995 PLAYS AND PETERSBURG TALES
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