Nikolay Gogol: References & Edit History
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Biographies include Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol (1944, reissued 1989), an astute and rather subjective monograph; Victor Erlich, Gogol (1969), an excellent study; Henri Troyat, Divided Soul (1973, also published as Gogol, 1974); and V.V. Gippius, Gogol (1981). Critical studies may be found in Paul Debreczeny, Nikolay Gogol and His Contemporary Critics (1966); Robert A. Maguire (compiler), Gogol from the Twentieth Century (1974); Simon Karlinsky, The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol (1976), the definitive study of Gogol and sexuality; Donald Fanger, The Creation of Nikolai Gogol (1979), which analyzes the author in the context of his times; and Richard Peace, The Enigma of Gogol (1981).
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| Anniversary information added. | Mar 27, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 28, 2026 | ||
| Corrected spelling of “Bybrannyye” to “Vybrannyye.” | Aug 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Nikolai Gogol'�s Self-Fashioning in the 1830s: The Postcolonial Perspective (PDF). | Jan 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Presidential Library - Birth of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, Russian Writer, Classic of Russian Literature. | Nov 30, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Russia-InfoCentre - Biography of Nikolai Gogol. | Jul 14, 2022 | ||
| Changed “the Ukraine” to “Ukraine.” | Mar 09, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Nikolai Gogol. | Jul 02, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 31, 2017 | ||
| "Ukrainian-born Russian" changed to "Ukrainian-born," with Gogol also identified as "a subject of the Russian Empire." | Mar 31, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Literature Network - Biography of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. | Apr 15, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Nikolai Gogol. | Jun 25, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - Biography of Nikolay Gogol. | Aug 13, 2013 | ||
| Added "Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol" as a title variant. | Oct 26, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Russia The Great - Biography of Nikolay Vasiliyevich Gogol. | Jan 17, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Theatre Database - Biography of Nikolai Gogol. | Dec 02, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. | Nov 29, 2011 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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