1809 - 1852
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, Nikolai Gogol ranks 81 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1740 - 1814
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 75
1904 - 1973
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 76
1899 - 1986
HPI: 78.18
Rank: 77
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 78
1931 - 2019
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 79
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.99
Rank: 80
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 81
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 82
1667 - 1745
HPI: 77.74
Rank: 83
1584 - 1645
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 84
1929 - 2023
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 85
1797 - 1856
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 86
1858 - 1940
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 87
Among people born in 1809, Nikolai Gogol ranks 6. Before 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 2. Before 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.
1809 - 1882
HPI: 90.67
Rank: 1
1809 - 1849
HPI: 86.74
Rank: 2
1809 - 1865
HPI: 85.22
Rank: 3
1809 - 1847
HPI: 79.90
Rank: 4
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 5
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 6
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 7
1809 - 1891
HPI: 70.17
Rank: 8
1809 - 1882
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 9
1809 - 1891
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 10
1809 - 1898
HPI: 62.39
Rank: 11
1809 - 1882
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 12
1809 - 1852
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 1
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 2
1782 - 1852
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 3
1815 - 1852
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 4
1769 - 1852
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 5
1777 - 1852
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 6
1774 - 1852
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 7
1778 - 1852
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 8
1760 - 1852
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 9
1778 - 1852
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 10
1799 - 1852
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 11
1790 - 1852
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 12
Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Gogol ranks 4 out of 1,083. Before 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).
1502 - 1558
HPI: 85.98
Rank: 1
1879 - 1940
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 2
1906 - 1982
HPI: 81.78
Rank: 3
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 4
1891 - 1953
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 5
1950 - Present
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 6
1479 - 1534
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 7
1909 - 1959
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 8
1844 - 1930
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 9
1898 - 1978
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 10
1879 - 1935
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 11
1629 - 1696
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Ukraine, Nikolai Gogol ranks 1. After 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).
1809 - 1852
HPI: 77.86
Rank: 1
1891 - 1940
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 2
1857 - 1924
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 3
1948 - Present
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 4
1814 - 1861
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 5
1889 - 1966
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 6
1836 - 1895
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 7
1894 - 1939
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 8
1859 - 1916
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 9
1891 - 1967
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 10
1905 - 1964
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 11
1871 - 1913
HPI: 66.00
Rank: 12