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Nikolay Gogol
Ukrainian-born humorist, novelist, and dramatist Nikolay Gogol, 19th-century photographic print.
Nikolay Gogol was born on March 19 (March 31, New Style), 1809, in Sorochintsy, near Poltava, Ukraine, which was then part of the Russian Empire.1