Н.В.Гоголь(биография на английском языке)

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on March 31st, 1809. He was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer.

Gogol was born in the Ukrainian Cossack village of Sorochyntsi, in Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire. His mother was a descendant of Polish landowners. His father Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky, a descendant of Ukrainian Cossacks and who died when Gogol was 15 years old, wrote poetry in Ukrainian and Russian.

In 1820, Gogol went to a school of higher art in Nizhyn and remained there until 1828. It was there that he began writing.

His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by Ukrainian culture and folklore. The novel Taras Bulba(1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", were his best-known works.

On March 4th, 1852 Gogol he took to bed, refused all food, and died in great pain.

Gogol was mourned in the Saint Tatiana church at the Moscow University before his burial and then buried at the Danilov Monastery.

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