Nikolai Gogol
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (April 1, 1809 — March 4, 1852) was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. Although his early works were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian heritage and upbringing, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literature. The novel Dead Souls (1842), the play Revizor (1836, 1842), and the short story The Overcoat (1842) and The Nose count among his masterpieces.
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Bibliography of Nikolai Gogol
- Ode to Italy (1829, poem)
- Hanz Küchelgarten (1829, narrative poem, published under the pseudonym "V. Alov")
- Woman (1830, short story)
- Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (Volume I, 1831, short story collection)
- Preface (collection opening)
- The Fair at Sorochintsï (short story) (the basis for Mussorgsky's opera of the same name)
- St. John's Eve (short story) (the basis for Mussorgsky's orchestral work best known under the title Night on Bald Mountain)
- May Night or the Drowned Maiden (the basis for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name and of Mykola Lysenko's opera The Drowned Maiden [Utoplena])
- The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church
- Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (Volume II, 1832, short story collection)
- Preface (collection opening, Volume II)
- Christmas Eve (the basis for several operas, including Tchaikovsky's Cherevichki (the revised version of Vakula the Smith), Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, and Mykola Lysenko's like-named (in Ukrainian) Rivnaja nič)
- A Terrible Vengeance
- Ivan Fedorovic Sponka and his Aunt
- A Bewitched Place
- Mirgorod (1835, short story collection, published in two volumes)
- The Old World Landowners
- Taras Bulba (the basis for an opera of the same name by Mykola Lysenko)
- Viy
- The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
- Arabesques (1835, short story collection)
- The Nose (1836, short story, the basis for an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich)
- The Carriage (1836, short story)
- The Government Inspector (1836, play, a.k.a. The Inspector General)
- Leaving the Theater (1842, essay)
- Rome (1842, fragment)
- The Overcoat (1842, short story)
- Zhenitba (or Zhenit'ba – The Marriage, 1842, comedy, play, the first act of which was adapted by Mussorgsky as an opera of the same name, completed by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov)
- Dead Souls (1842, novel)
- The Gamblers (1843, play)
- Selected Passages from Correspondence with his Friends (1847, collection of letters and essays)
Adaptations
Film
- 1913—The Night Before Christmas, a 41-minute film by Ladislas Starevich which contains some of the first combinations of stop motion animation with live action
- 1926—The Overcoat, a Soviet silent film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
- 1945—The Lost Letter, the Soviet Union's first feature-length traditionally-animated film
- 1949—The Inspector General, a musical comedy and very loose adaptation directed by Henry Koster and starring Danny Kaye.
- 1951—The Night Before Christmas, an animated feature film directed by the Brumberg sisters
- 1952—Il Cappotto, an Italian film directed by Alberto Lattuada
- 1959—The Overcoat, a Soviet film directed by Aleksey Batalov
- 1962—Taras Bulba, a Yugoslavian/American film directed by J. Lee Thompson
- 1963—The Nose, a short film by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker using pinscreen animation
- 1967—Viy, a horror film made on Mosfilm and based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name.
- 1984—Dead Souls, directed by Mikhail Shveytser
- 1997—The Night Before Christmas, a 26-minute stop-motion-animated film [1]
- 20??—The Overcoat, an upcoming film by acclaimed animator Yuriy Norshteyn, being worked on since 1981
Opera
- 1874—Vakula the Smith, an opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
- 1880—May Night, an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- 1885—Cherevichki, Tchaikovsky's revision of Vakula the Smith
- 1906—Zhenitba, an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky
- 1917—The Fair at Sorochyntsi, an unfinished opera begun in 1874 by Modest Mussorgsky and first completed by César Cui - many different versions exist
- 1930—The Nose, a satirical opera by Dmitri Shostakovich
- 1976—Dead Souls, an opera by Russian nationalist composer Rodion Shchedrin
Other
- 2006—Dead Souls, a BBC radio adaptation
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