Nikolai+Gogol

=**Nikolai Gogol**=

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humourist, and dramatist. He is considered the father of modern Russian realism, but at the same time, his work is very much in the genre of romanticism. His early works, such as //Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka//, were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identityHis more mature writing satirised the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire, leading to his exile. On his return, he immersed himself in the Orthodox Church.The novels //Taras Bul'ba// (1835; 1842 [revised edition]) and //Dead Souls// (1842), the play //The Inspector-General// (1836, 1842), and the short stories //Diary of a Madman//, //The Nose// and //The Overcoat// (1842) are among his best known works. With their scrupulous and scathing realism, ethical criticism as well as philosophical depth, they remain some of the most important works of world. [| http://theatre1100.wikispaces.com/page/edit/Nikolai+Gogol?responseToken=04168e9f17cfe39dc81e45209a84c123c]

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 * Gogol has been featured many times on Russian and Soviet postage stamps; he is also well-represented on stamps worldwide.
 * Several commemorative coins have been issued from Russia and the USSR. On March 19, 2009, theNational Bank of Ukraineissued a commemorative coindedicated to Gogol.
 * Streets have been named after Gogol in Moscow,Lipetsk,Odessa,Myrhorod,Krasnodar,Vladimir,Vladivostok,Penza,Petrozavodsk,Riga,Bratislavaand many other towns and cities.
 * Gogol is referenced multiple times inDostoyevsky's//Crime and Punishment//andChekhov's//The Seagull//.
 * More than 35 films have been based on Gogol's work, the most recent being //Taras Bulba//(2008).
 * BBC Radio 4made a series of six Gogol short stories entitled//Three Ivans Two Aunts and an Overcoat//(2002, adaptations by Jim Poyser).
 * Inmusic, thegypsy punk band Gogol Bordellois named lovingly after Gogol. A song byJoy Division,"Dead Souls"(1980), is named after his novel.
 * Inpopular fiction,James Bond's unreproachable yet unlovable competitor (and occasional ally) is lent a distinguished air by his name,Anatol Gogol.
 * A main character is evocatively named Gogol in "The Namesake" (2003) byJhumpa Lahiri.
 * Gogol festis the annual multidisciplinary international festival of contemporary art held inKiev, Ukraine.
 * Gogol is mentioned in Adventure land (film)as one character's favorite novelist.

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