Mykola gogol biography

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809 - 1852) was a Russian short story writer, dramatist, and novelist born in the Cossack Village of Sorochyntsi, Ukraine.

Part of the natural school of Russian literary Realism, Gogol later gained a reputation for his venture into the grotesque and surrealism, as in his short stories The Overcoat, The Nose, and Nevsky Prospekt.

Gogol had a strong literary upbringing: he learned Ukrainian and Russian, his father wrote poetry and was an amateur playwright, and as a child Gogol helped stage his uncle's plays.

He began writing while at a school of higher art in Nizhyn, where he earned the nickname "mysterious dwarf." He had a dark and secretive disposition, developed a talent for mimicry and satire, which eventually led to his exile from Russia.

His satire was unconventional and much more sophisticated than his contemporaries.

Gogol studied Ukr