When is Nikolai Gogol's birthday?

Nikolai Gogol's birthday is March 19. He was born on March 19, 1809 in Velyki Sorochyntsi, Ukraine.

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Famous people who share Nikolai Gogol's March 19 birthday include Valery Leontiev, Bruce Willis, David Livingstone, Adolf Eichmann and A. Kollontaĭ.

Literature · Media · Scholarship · 1809–1852

Nikolai Gogol — Age & Birthday

Born: 19 March 1809 · Died: 21 February 1852 · Age at death: 42

How old was Nikolai Gogol when he died?

Nikolai Gogol died aged 42. He was born on 19 March 1809 and died on 21 February 1852.

Ukrainian-born Russian writer of Dead Souls, The Government Inspector and The Overcoat, master of grotesque satire

Did you know?During a spiritual crisis late in life, he burned many of his manuscripts, including the second part of his novel Dead Souls.

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Date of birth19 March 1809
Date of death21 February 1852
Age at death42
NationalityRussian-Ukrainian
BirthplaceVelyki Sorochyntsi, Ukraine
Occupationplaywright, historian, literary critic

Editor's Take:

Gogol is the strangest of the great Russian writers. His stories mix comedy, horror and absurdity in ways that feel startlingly modern. A nose wanders off on its own, a clerk is obsessed with a new overcoat, a con man buys dead serfs. Dostoevsky is said to have remarked that Russian writers came out of Gogol's Overcoat. His blend of satire and fantasy influenced writers far beyond Russia.

Key Milestones

1831: Evenings on a Farm – Ukrainian tales
1836: The Government Inspector – satirical play
1836: The Nose – absurd story
1842: Dead Souls – novel

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt".

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Nikolai Gogol: Russia's Master of the Absurd

Russian-Ukrainian writer, 1809–1852

Nikolai Gogol was born in Sorochyntsi, in present-day Ukraine, in 1809.

His play The Government Inspector mocked corrupt officials, and his stories The Nose and The Overcoat became classics.

His novel Dead Souls is a comic masterpiece of Russian literature.

Career highlights

1831Evenings on a Farm: Ukrainian tales
1836The Government Inspector: satirical play
1836The Nose: absurd story
1842Dead Souls: novel
1842The Overcoat: famous story

Did you know?He spent many years living in Rome, where he wrote much of Dead Souls.

Age at death: 42
Years since death: 174

Family

Father: Vasyl Panasovych Gogol-Yanovsky
Mother: Mariia Hohol

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When is Nikolai Gogol's birthday?: Nikolai Gogol's birthday is March 19. He was born on March 19, 1809 in Velyki Sorochyntsi, Ukraine.
How old was Nikolai Gogol when he died?: Nikolai Gogol died on February 21, 1852, aged 42.
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