- Date de naissance
- Date de décès4 mars 1852 · Moscou, Empire russe [aujourd'hui la Russie] (famine volontaire)
- Nom de naissanceNikolay Vasilyevich Yanovskiy
- Surnom
- Mykola
- Nikolay Gogol est né le 31 mars 1809 à Sorochintsy, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [aujourd'hui Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]. Il était scénariste. Il est connu pour Burnt Hickory, Untitled Nikolai Gogol Adaptation et The Portrait. Il est mort le 4 mars 1852 à Moscou, Empire russe (aujourd'hui Russie).
- Founder of realism in Russian literature.
- In the Soviet Union, he was considered the father of Russian Realism; now, most would consider him to be a father of Surrealism (Nabokov's book on Gogol has been influential in this regard).
- The band Gogol Bordello got its name from Nikolai Gogol.
- While born with the surname of Ianovskii, the reason behind his use of the name Gogol was due to his grandfather taking this name to be able to claim a noble Cossack ancestry.
- A notorious and outspoken anti-Semite.
- This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives.
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