My favourite writer

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Nikolai Gogol was born in Sorochintsi , Ukraine, and grew up on his parent's country estate. Gogol's father was an educated and gifted man, who wrote plays, poems, and sketches.

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Gogol started write while in high school. He attended Poltava boarding school (1819-1821) and Nezhyn high school (1821-1828 ). Between the years 1831 and 1834 he taught history at the Patriotic Institute and worked as a private tutor . In 1831, Gogol met Aleksander Pushkin who greatly influenced his choice of literary material, especially his " Dikan'ka Tales", which were based on Ukrainian folklore. Their friendship lasted until the great poet's death. In 1835, Gogol became a full-time writer. Pushkin and Gogol

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Gogol published in 1836 several stories in Pushkin's journal " Sovremennik " and in the same year appeared his famous play, "The Inspector General". It told a simple tale of a young civil servant, Khlestakov , who finds himself stranded in a small provincial town. By mistake, he is taken by the local officials to be a government inspector, who is visiting their province incognito. Khlestakov happily adapts to his new role and exploits the situation, but then arrives the real inspector. The Inspector General

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In Rome Gogol wrote his major work, "The Dead Souls". Gogol claimed that the story was suggested by Pushkin in a conversation in 1835. It depicted the adventures Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov , who arrives in a provincial town to buy "dead souls", dead serfs. By selling these "souls" with a cheaply-bought lands, Chichikov planned to make a huge profit. He meets local landowners and departs in a hurry, when rumours start spread about him. The Dead Souls

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In his later life Gogol came under influence of a fanatical priest, Father Konstantinovskii , and burned sequels for "Dead Souls", just 10 days before he died on the verge of madness on the 4th of March, 1852. Gogol had refused to take any food and various remedies were employed to make him eat. Rumors arise from time to time that Gogol was buried alive.