This is a list of the works by
Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), followed by a list of adaptations of his works: __NOTOC__
Drama
* ''
Decoration of Vladimir of the Third Class'', unfinished comedy (1832).
[Golub (1998, 432).]
* ''
Marriage
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'', comedy (1835, published and premiered 1842).
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* '' The Gamblers'', comedy (1836, published 1842, premiered 1843).][
* '']The Government Inspector
''The Government Inspector'', also known as ''The Inspector General'' ( rus, links=no, Ревизор, Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist, Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the pl ...
'', also translated as ''The Inspector General'' (1836).[
* '' Leaving the Theater'', (''After the Staging of a New Comedy'') (1836)
]
Essays
* ''Woman
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'', essay (1830)
* ''Preface'', to first volume of ''Evenings on a Farm'' (1831)
* ''Preface'', to second volume of ''Evenings on a Farm'' (1832)
* '' Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends'', collection of letters and essays (1847).[
** '' Meditations on the Divine Liturgy''
]
Fiction
* ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'' (russian: «Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки») is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1829–1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book f ...
'', volume I of short story collection (1831):[
** '' The Fair at Sorochintsï''
** '' St John's Eve''
** '' May Night, or the Drowned Maiden''
** '' The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church''
* '']Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'' (russian: «Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки») is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1829–1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book f ...
'', volume II of short story collection (1832):[
** '' Christmas Eve''
** '' A Terrible Vengeance''
** '']Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
"Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt" (Иван Фёдорович Шпонька и его тётушка, ''Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka i yevo tyotushka''; 1832) is part of the collection ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'' by Nikolai Gogol.
Ori ...
''
** ''A Bewitched Place
"A Bewitched Place" is the last story in the second volume of Nikolai Gogol's first collection of short stories, ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'' (russian: «Вечера на хуторе близ Дика� ...
''
* ''Mirgorod
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'', short story collection in two volumes (1835):[
** '']The Old World Landowners
"The Old World Landowners" (Старосветские помещики, ''Starosvyetskiye pomeshchiki''), a short story written in 1835, is the first tale in the Mirgorod collection by Nikolai Gogol. A bittersweet and ironic reworking of the Bau ...
''
** ''Taras Bulba
''Taras Bulba'' (russian: «Тарас Бульба»; ) is a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852). It features elderly Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his sons And ...
''
** '' Viy''
** ''''
* '' Arabesques'', short story collection (1835):[
** '' The Portrait''
** '' A Chapter from an Historical Novel'' (fragment)
** '']Nevsky Prospect
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''
** ''The Prisoner
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'' (fragment)
** '' Diary of a Madman''
* '' The Nose'', short story (1835–1836)
* ''The Carriage
"The Carriage" (or "The Coach" in some translations; russian: Коляска) is an 1836 short story by Nikolai Gogol, one of his shortest works. The story centers on the life of a former cavalry officer and landowner near a small Russian town. A ...
'', short story (1836)
* ''Rome
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'', fragment (1842)
* ''The Overcoat
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'' (the variant of translation: “The Overcoat of an official”), short story (1842)
* '' Dead Souls'', novel (1842), intended as the first part of a trilogy
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.
* ' (1843)
** ''Nevsky Prospect
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''
** '' The Portrait''
** '' Diary of a Madman''
** '' The Nose''
** ''The Overcoat
"The Overcoat" (russian: Шине́ль, translit. Shinyél’; sometimes translated as "The Cloak") is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story has had a great influence on Russian literature. Eugène-Me ...
''
Fictional periods
Gogol's short stories composed between 1830 and 1835 are set in Ukraine, and are sometimes referenced collectively as his ''Ukrainian tales''.
His short stories composed between 1835 and 1842 are set in Petersburg, and are sometimes referenced collectively as his ''St Petersburg tales''.
Poetry
* '' Ode to Italy'', poem (1829)
* '' Hanz Küchelgarten'', narrative poem published under the pseudonym "V. Alov" (1829)
Selected compilations in English translation
* ''St. John's Eve and Other Stories'', trans. Isabel Florence Hapgood
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Early life
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(Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1886)
* ''The Mantle and Other Stories'', trans. Claud Field (T. Werner Laurie, 1915)
* ''Taras Bulba and Other Tales'', trans. C. J. Hogarth (Dent, 1918)
* ''The Overcoat and Other Stories'', trans. Constance Garnett
Constance Clara Garnett (; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the ...
(Chatto & Windus, 1923)
* ''Tales of Good and Evil'', trans. David Magarshack (Lehmann, 1949). Later reprinted as ''The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil'', with two stories added and "Taras Bulba" removed.
* ''The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories'', trans. Andrew R. MacAndrew (New American Library, 1960)
* ''Collected Tales and Plays'', ed. Leonard J. Kent (Pantheon, 1964). Revised editions of Garnett's translations.
* ''Diary of a Madman and Other Stories'', trans. Ronald Wilks (Penguin, 1972)
* ''Plays and Petersburg Tales'', trans. Christopher English (Oxford University Press, 1995)
* ''The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol'', trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Pantheon, 1998)
* ''And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon'', trans. Oliver Ready (Pushkin Press, 2019)
* ''The Nose and Other Stories'', trans. Susanne Fusso (Columbia University Press, 2020)
Adaptations
Film
* 1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the ...
: ''The Night Before Christmas
''A Visit from St. Nicholas'', more commonly known as ''The Night Before Christmas'' and ''Twas the Night Before Christmas'' from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title ''Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas'' i ...
'', a 41-minute film by Ladislas Starevich
Ladislas Starevich (russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич, pl, Władysław Starewicz; August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first pup ...
which contains some of the first combinations of stop motion
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animation with live action
* 1926
Events January
* January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.
* January 8
**Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of Viet ...
: ''The Overcoat
"The Overcoat" (russian: Шине́ль, translit. Shinyél’; sometimes translated as "The Cloak") is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story has had a great influence on Russian literature. Eugène-Me ...
'', a Soviet silent film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
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* 1945
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Events
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: '' The Lost Letter'', the Soviet Union's first feature
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-length traditionally animated film
* 1949: '' The Inspector General'', a musical comedy and very loose adaptation directed by Henry Koster
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and starring Danny Kaye.
* 1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
: ''The Night Before Christmas
''A Visit from St. Nicholas'', more commonly known as ''The Night Before Christmas'' and ''Twas the Night Before Christmas'' from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title ''Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas'' i ...
'', an animated feature film
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directed by the Brumberg sisters
* 1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
: '' Il Cappotto'', an Italian film directed by Alberto Lattuada
* 1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
: ''The Overcoat
"The Overcoat" (russian: Шине́ль, translit. Shinyél’; sometimes translated as "The Cloak") is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story has had a great influence on Russian literature. Eugène-Me ...
'', a Soviet film directed by Aleksey Batalov
* 1960
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Events
January
* Jan ...
: '' Black Sunday'', an Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava
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and based on the Nikolai Gogol story " Viy".
* 1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...
: ''Taras Bulba
''Taras Bulba'' (russian: «Тарас Бульба»; ) is a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852). It features elderly Zaporozhian Cossack Taras Bulba and his sons And ...
'', a Yugoslavia
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n/American film directed by J. Lee Thompson
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* 1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...
: ''The Nose'', a short film by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker using pinscreen animation
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* 1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
: '' Viy'', a horror film made on Mosfilm
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and based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name.
* 1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
: '' Dead Souls'', directed by Mikhail Shveytser
* 1997
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: ''The Night Before Christmas
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'', a 26-minute stop-motion-animated film
* 2014
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: '' Viy 3D'', a fantasy film
* 20??: ''The Overcoat
"The Overcoat" (russian: Шине́ль, translit. Shinyél’; sometimes translated as "The Cloak") is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story has had a great influence on Russian literature. Eugène-Me ...
'', an upcoming film by acclaimed animator Yuri Norstein
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, being worked on since 1981
Opera
* 1874: ''Vakula the Smith
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'', an opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
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* 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
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( rus, link=no, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky , mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj, Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; – ) was a Russian compo ...
* 1917: ''The Fair at Sorochyntsi
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'', an unfinished opera begun in 1874 by Modest Mussorgsky
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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
* 2011: ''Gogol
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'', an opera by Russian composer Lera Auerbach
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Radio
* 2006: '' Dead Souls'', a BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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* Golub, Spencer. 1998. "Gogol, Nikolai (Vasilievich)." In ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre.'' Ed. Martin Banham. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 431–432. .