![]() ![]() Gogol also wrote the play The Inspector (1836), Dead Souls (1842), and several moralizing essays defending the Tsarist regime, to the horror of his liberal and radical friends. Diary of a Madman and The Story of the Quarrel between Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich appeared in 1934, The Nose in 1836, and The Overcoat in 1842. ![]() He even managed for a short period to be Professor of History at the University of St. Gogol was introduced to Zhukovsky, the romantic poet, and to Pushkin, and with the publication of Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831) he had an entr e to all the leading literary salons. He went to St Petersburg in 1829 and with the help of a friend gained a post in one of the government ministries. He attended school in N zhin and gained a reputation for his theatrical abilities. Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol was born in 1809 his family were small gentry of Ukrainian cossack extraction, and his father was the author of a number of plays based on Ukrainian popular tales. ![]()
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