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Nikolai Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and critic.
* He was born in 1809 in Sorotchintsy, Ukraine.
* He studied at the University of Saint Petersburg.
* His first major work, the short story collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, was published in 1831.
* His most famous work, the novel Dead Souls, was published in 1842.
* He died in 1852 in Moscow.
* He is considered one of the greatest Russian writers of all time.
* His works have been translated into many languages and have been adapted into films and plays.
* He is still widely read and admired today.

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

Nikolai Gogol

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Nikolai Gogol

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