Prior was commissioned by the St. Petersburg Concert Society to write a choral symphony based on Nikolai Gogol's work "Nevsky Prospekt" and other stories such as "Diary of a Madman".
A generation raised in a free Russia, they combine both Gogol's trends.
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With a command since childhood of foreign languages, to which their forefathers had no access, enjoying freedom of speech, the absence of censorship, the opportunity to travel all over the world – for example, to spend time in Gogol's beloved Rome, where he wrote Dead Souls and to read books that used to be banned, they are creating a new type of literature.
Pejorative names for the practice include janitor's insurance and dead peasants insurance, the latter of which refers to the plot of Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls.
The band’s most striking feature has always been highly literary (somewhat baffling, occasionally offensive but always hilarious) lyrics which according to one source, continued “the tradition of Russian surrealism and absurdism which was made famous by authors like Nikolai Gogol and Daniil Harms.
The group's debut production was an adaptation of The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol.
She returned to the New Theatre for the 1947–1948 season, appearing in such roles as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, The Queen in Richard II, and Marya Antonovna in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector.
The panoramic canvases of his novels capture the teeming life of the streets, reflecting their author's appreciation of such great nineteenth-century writers as Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky and Gogol.
Nikolai Gogol | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Nikolai Yudenich | Nikolai Bulganin | Gogol Bordello | Nikolai Timkov | Nikolai Leskov | Nikolai Rubinstein | Nikolai Bukharin | Nikolai Volkoff | Nikolai Fraiture | Nikolai Rakov | Nikolai Pozdneev | Nikolai Eilertsen | Nikolai Berdyaev | Nikolai Ryzhkov | Nikolai Krylenko | Nikolai Glushkov | Nikolai Erdman | Henrik Nikolai Krøyer | Russian battleship Imperator Nikolai I | Nikolai Vavilov | Nikolai Sokoloff | Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov | Nikolai Roslavets | Nikolai Ostrovsky | Nikolai Myaskovsky | Nikolai Medtner | Nikolai Kibalchich | Nikolai Kamov |
Alexandra Rossette (who in 1832 married Russian diplomat Nikolai Smirnov), was an elitist Saint Petersburg salon hostess and a friend of Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Lermontov.
Mehdi Mammadov entrusted Gorodnichev’s piece from N.V.Gogol’s “The Government Inspector” to Arif Babayev.
Dykanka is the location of the short story collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.
The preface is the opening to the first volume of Evenings on a Farm Near Dykanka by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1831.
His other stage roles Shah (Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar by A.Hagverdiyev), Khlestakov (The Government Inspector by N.Gogol), Heydar bey (Haji Gara by M.F.Akhundov), Othello (Othello by W.Shakespeare), etc.
Among the 19th-century visitors to Kachanovka were Nikolai Gogol, Taras Shevchenko, Ilya Repin, Mikhail Vrubel, and Mikhail Glinka (who worked on his opera A Life for the Tsar in the summerhouse).
Leonid Solovyov also wrote many screenplays including one based on Nikolai Gogol's story "The Overcoat".
The bridge is mentioned in Nikolai Gogol's short story, « The Overcoat. » The main character, Akaky Akakievich —or a certain clerk— is rumored to appear as a ghost near the bridge, searching for his stolen overcoat.
In 2009 the Rogues created an original adaptation of three shorts stories by Nikolai Gogol- "The Overcoat", "The Nose", and "Diary of a Madman"- entitled Gogol Project.
Judging from his works, major influences on his style were Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and H. G. Wells.
Later, as Andrey Goncharov came to become the head of the theatre, she created several outstanding characters, notably Blanche in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and the Mayoress Anna Andreevna in Nikolai Gogol’s Revizor.
Along with these, stage versions of classic literature (“The Overcoat” by N.V.Gogol, “The little house in Kolomna”, “The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda” by A.S.Pushkin, “The Grand Inquisitor” by F.M.Dostoyevski, “The Mask”, “Pharmacist” by Chekhov and others) were included into its repertoire.
It is believed that the plot of The Government Inspector, a comedy by Russian playwright Nikolai Gogol, is based on the real story which took place in Ustyuzhna in the beginning of the 19th century.
Today the theatre’s repertoire consists of the world’s drama classics including Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Jean Cocteau, Latvian plays by dramatists Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Jānis Rainis, and Agita Dragūna.
Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (Russian: Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки) is a 1961 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a collection of short stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, by Nikolai Gogol.
With the help of a native Russian he was also able to translate several Russian works, from Alexis Tolstoï, Nikolai Gogol and Elie Ilf.
Gilyarovsky treasured his partly Cossack descent: as a young man, he posed for one of the Cossacks depicted on Repin's huge canvas Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks; he was also a model for Taras Bulba, whose figure is part of the Gogol Monument in Moscow.