WRITER

Nikolai Gogol

1809 - 1852

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Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt". These stories, and others such as "Diary of a Madman", have also been noted for their proto-surrealist qualities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Gogol has received more than 3,311,306 page views. His biography is available in 104 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Nikolai Gogol is the 69th most popular writer (up from 81st in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Nikolai Gogol is most famous for his short story "The Nose," which is about a man who wakes up one morning to find that his nose has disappeared.

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  • 104

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  • 5.30

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolai Gogol ranks 69 out of 7,302. Before him are Rabindranath Tagore, Arthur Conan Doyle, Umberto Eco, Heinrich Heine, Romain Rolland, and Bertolt Brecht. After him are Li Bai, Charles Perrault, Milan Kundera, Robert Frost, Theodor Herzl, and Jorge Luis Borges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Nikolai Gogol ranks 5. Before him are Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, and Felix Mendelssohn. After him are Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Albert Pike, Bruno Bauer, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1852, Nikolai Gogol ranks 1. After him are Louis Braille, Ada Lovelace, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Friedrich Fröbel, Henry Clay, Auguste de Marmont, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Johan Gadolin, Karl Bryullov, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, and Vasily Zhukovsky.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Gogol ranks 5 out of 1,365. Before him are Leon Trotsky (1879), Hurrem Sultan (1502), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), and Golda Meir (1898). After him are Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Stepan Bandera (1909), John III Sobieski (1629), Kazimir Malevich (1879), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Joseph Conrad (1857), and Hafsa Sultan (1479).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Nikolai Gogol ranks 1. After him are Joseph Conrad (1857), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Lesya Ukrainka (1871).

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