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Also Known As Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol
Born March 31, 1809 • Ukraine
Died March 4, 1852 (aged 42) • Moscow • Russia
Notable Works “Arabesques” • “Dead Souls” • “Diary of a Madman” • “Mirgorod” • “Nevsky prospekt” • “Selected Passages from Correspondence with My Friends” • “Taras Bulba” • “The Government Inspector” • “The Nose” • “The Overcoat”

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