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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 grotesque, 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. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol's strange style of writing resembles the "ostranenie" technique of defamiliarization. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Gogol has received more than 2,933,379 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Nikolai Gogol is the 81st most popular writer (down from 57th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Ukraine 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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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolai Gogol ranks 81 out of 5,755Before him are Marquis de Sade, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Frost, Toni Morrison, and Paulo Coelho. After him are Stephen King, Jonathan Swift, Miyamoto Musashi, Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, and Selma Lagerlöf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Nikolai Gogol ranks 6Before him are Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, and Louis Braille. After him are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Bruno Bauer, Albert Pike, William Ewart Gladstone, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1852, Nikolai Gogol ranks 2Before him is Louis Braille. After him are Friedrich Fröbel, Ada Lovelace, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Henry Clay, Auguste de Marmont, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Johan Gadolin, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Karl Bryullov, and Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Gogol ranks 4 out of 1,083Before him are Hurrem Sultan (1502), Leon Trotsky (1879), and Leonid Brezhnev (1906). After him are Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Stepan Bandera (1909), Ilya Repin (1844), Golda Meir (1898), Kazimir Malevich (1879), and John III Sobieski (1629).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

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