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    Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol was born in 1809; his family belonged to a minor gentry of Ukrainian Cossack extraction, and his father was the author of a number of plays based on Ukrainian popular tales. He attended school in Nézhin and gained a reputation for his theatrical abilities. He went to St. Petersburg in 1829 and with the help of a friend gained a post in one of the government ministries. Gogol was introduced to Zhukovsky, the romantic poet, and to Pushkin, and with the publication of Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831) he had an entrée to all the leading literary salons. He even managed for a short period to be a professor of history at the University of St. Petersburg (1834–1835).
    The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
    The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
    Nikolai Gogol
    9780375706158
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 29, 1999
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
    The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
    Nikolai Gogol
    9780375706158
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 29, 1999
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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