Nikolai Gogol is one of Russia’s most beloved writers. Gogol wrote short stories and plays, and died at the young age of 43. Your local library has a wide selection of materials both on or about him.

A character to challenge the best writers. By Bret Stephens Nikolai Gogol, the 19th-century author and playwright, understood better than any artist since what “perfect nonsense goes on in the world.” ...

The question of Nikolai Gogol’s “belonging”—especially now, as Ukrainian and Russian cultures, long bound by an imperial past, are severing their ties before our eyes—remains a deeply painful issue ...

What to make of Nikolai Gogol, Russia’s “greatest comic writer,” who “thoroughly baffled his contemporaries”? “Everywhere Gogol describes a world of incandescent inanity,” Gary Saul Morson writes: ...

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. The 19th century is considered the golden age of Russian literature: Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev ...

Three years after the publication of his magnum opus, Nikolai Gogol was in the midst of a spiritual breakdown. Dead Souls entered the Russian literary conversation like a shocking new fashion trend.

The thing about big plans is that they require people to carry them out. The problem of personnel particularly plagued Peter the Great. Convinced by his European advisers that his country was backward ...

Drama director and actor Sarath Dikkumbura keeps coming up with great ideas for dramas. This time, he has done an adaptation ...

Moscow is increasing its use of these devices, which since October have been reaching provinces far from the front lines for ...