Nikolai Gogol

Few writers have made the ordinary world feel quite as strange, comic, and unsettling as Nikolai Gogol. Nikolai Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer best known for his short stories, satire, plays, and fiction, including 'Dead Souls', 'The Government Inspector', 'The Overcoat', and 'The Nose'. Born in 1809 in Sorochyntsi, in present-day Ukraine, Gogol grew up surrounded by Ukrainian folklore, traditions, and...