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8 unusual facts about Nikolai Gogol


Alex Prior

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".

Alexander Karasyov

A generation raised in a free Russia, they combine both Gogol's trends.

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.

Corporate-owned life insurance in the United States

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.

N.O.M.

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.

Regina Casé

The group's debut production was an adaptation of The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol.

Renée Asherson

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.

Yves Beauchemin

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.


Alexandra Smirnova

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.

Arif Babayev

Mehdi Mammadov entrusted Gorodnichev’s piece from N.V.Gogol’s “The Government Inspector” to Arif Babayev.

Dykanka

Dykanka is the location of the short story collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

The preface is the opening to the first volume of Evenings on a Farm Near Dykanka by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1831.

Huseyn Arablinski

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.

Kachanivka

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

Leonid Solovyov also wrote many screenplays including one based on Nikolai Gogol's story "The Overcoat".

Malo-Kalinkin Bridge

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.

Rogue Artists Ensemble

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.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

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.

Svetlana Nemolyaeva

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.

Theatre in Azerbaijan

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.

Ustyuzhna

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.

Valka Town Theatre

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

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.

Victor Llona

With the help of a native Russian he was also able to translate several Russian works, from Alexis Tolstoï, Nikolai Gogol and Elie Ilf.

Vladimir Gilyarovsky

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.


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