This is a list of the works by

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; uk, link=no, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit=Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; (russian: Яновский; uk, Яновський, translit=Yanovskyi) ( – ) was a Russian novelist, ...

(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 Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between ...

'', comedy (1835, published and premiered 1842). * '' 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 pla ...

'', also translated as ''The Inspector General'' (1836). * '' Leaving the Theater'', (''After the Staging of a New Comedy'') (1836)

Essays

* ''

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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 "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden" (Russian: "Майская ночь, или Утопленница", ''Mayskaya noch', ili Utoplennitsa'', 1831) is the third tale in the collection ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'' by Nikolai Gogol. It was ma ...

'' ** '' The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church'' * ''

'', volume II of short story collection (1832): ** ''

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'' ** ''

A Terrible Vengeance "A Terrible Vengeance" (russian: Страшная месть, Strashnaya mest') is a short Gothic horror story written by Russian author Nikolai Gogol. It was published in the second volume of his first short story collection, ''Evenings on a Farm ...

'' ** ''

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'' (1832). Like the concluding tale of the first volume, "The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexto ...

'' * ''

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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 Bauci ...

'' ** ''

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'' ** ''

The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" (russian: «Повесть о том, как поссорился Иван Иванович с Иваном Никифоровичем», Povest' o tom, kak possorilsja Ivan Ivanovič ...

'' * ''

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'', short story collection (1835): ** '' The Portrait'' ** '' A Chapter from an Historical Novel'' (fragment) ** ''

Nevsky Prospect Nevsky Prospect ( rus, Не́вский проспе́кт, r=Nevsky Prospekt, p=ˈnʲɛfskʲɪj prɐˈspʲɛkt) is the main street (high street) in the federal city of St. Petersburg in Russia. It takes its name from the Alexander Nevsky La ...

'' ** ''

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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) * ''

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'', fragment (1842) * ''

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-Mel ...

'' (the variant of translation: “The Overcoat of an official”), short story (1842) * ''

Dead Souls ''Dead Souls'' (russian: «Мёртвые души», ''Mjórtvyje dúshi'') is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adv ...

'', novel (1842), intended as the first part of a

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. * ' (1843) ** ''

'' ** '' The Portrait'' ** '' Diary of a Madman'' ** '' The Nose'' ** ''

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 Isabel Florence Hapgood (November 21, 1851 – June 26, 1928) was an American ecumenist, writer and translator, especially of Russian and French texts. Early life Hapgood was born in Boston, to Asa Hapgood and Lydia Anna Bronson Crossley, w ...

(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 Charles James Hogarth (1869-1945) was a British soldier and prolific translator from Russian, who wrote as C. J. Hogarth. He translated work by writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Turgenev, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Shmelev, Iva ...

(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 David Magarshack (23 December 1899 – 26 October 1977) was a British translator and biographer of Russian authors, best remembered for his translations of Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol. Biography Magarshack was born in Riga, in present-day ...

(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 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are literary translators best known for their collaborative English translations of classic Russian literature. Individually, Pevear has also translated into English works from French, Italian, and Greek. The ...

(Pantheon, 1998) * ''And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon'', trans.

Oliver Ready Oliver James Ready (born 17 April 1976) is a British Slavist, Russian-English translator. Biography In 1994–1998, he studied Modern Languages (Russian and Italian) at Worcester College, University of Oxford. In 2000–2001, he did MA in Rus ...

(Pushkin Press, 2019) * ''The Nose and Other Stories'', trans. Susanne Fusso (Columbia University Press, 2020)

Adaptations

Film

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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 pu ...

which contains some of the first combinations of

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animation with live action *

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: ''

'', a Soviet silent film directed by

Grigori Kozintsev Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (russian: link=no, Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964. In 1965 ...

and

Leonid Trauberg Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg (russian: Леонид Захарович Трауберг, 17 January 1902 – 14 November 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the S ...

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: '' The Lost Letter'', the Soviet Union's first

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-length traditionally animated film *

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

: '' The Inspector General'', a musical comedy and very loose adaptation directed by

Henry Koster Henry Koster (born Hermann Kosterlitz, May 1, 1905 – September 21, 1988) was a German-born film director. He was the husband of actress Peggy Moran. Early life Koster was born to Jewish parents in Berlin, Germany. He was introduced to cin ...

and starring

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. *

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: ''

'', an

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directed by the Brumberg sisters *

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: ''

Il Cappotto ''The Overcoat'' ( it, Il Cappotto) is a 1952 Italian fantasy-drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It stars Renato Rascel and is a modern-day version, set in Italy, of the same-named 1842 short tale by Nikolai Gogol. The director's sister, Bi ...

'', an Italian film directed by

Alberto Lattuada Alberto Lattuada (; 13 November 1914 – 3 July 2005) was an Italian film director. Career Lattuada was born in Vaprio d'Adda, the son of composer Felice Lattuada. He was initially interested in literature, becoming, while still a student, a mem ...

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: ''

'', a Soviet film directed by

Aleksey Batalov Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Влади́мирович Бата́лов; 20 November 1928 – 15 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue acclaimed f ...

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: '' Black Sunday'', an Italian horror film directed by

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and based on the

story " Viy". *

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: ''

'', a

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n/American film directed by

J. Lee Thompson John Lee Thompson (1 August 1914 – 30 August 2002) was a British film director, active in London and Hollywood, best known for award-winning films such as ''Woman in a Dressing Gown'', ''Ice Cold in Alex'' and ''The Guns of Navarone (film), Th ...

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 Cov ...

: ''The Nose'', a short film by

Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker Alexandre Alexandrovitch Alexeieff (Russian: Александр Александрович Алексеев;Alternative transcriptions include Alexander Alexeieff or Alexander Alexeïeff or Alexandre Alexieff 18 April 1901 – 9 August 1982) was ...

using

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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

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and based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name. *

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: ''

'', directed by

Mikhail Shveytser Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (russian: Михаил (Моисей) Абрамович Швейцер, 16 February 1920, Perm – 2 June 2000, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR ( ...

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: ''

'', a 26-minute stop-motion-animated film *

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: '' Viy 3D'', a fantasy film * 20??: ''

'', an upcoming film by acclaimed animator

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, being worked on since 1981

Opera

* 1874: ''

Vakula the Smith ''Vakula the Smith'' (russian: Кузнец Вакула, Kuznéts Vakúla, Smith Vakula ), Op. 14, is a Ukrainian-themed opera in 3 acts, 8 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Yakov Polonsky and is based on Nikolai G ...

'', an opera by

Pyotr Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...

* 1880: ''

May Night ''May Night'' ( rus, Майская ночь, Mayskaya noch ) is a comic opera in three acts, four scenes, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from a libretto by the composer and is based on Nikolai Gogol's story " May Night, or the Drowned Maiden", from hi ...

'', an opera by

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov . At the time, his name was spelled Николай Андреевичъ Римскій-Корсаковъ. la, Nicolaus Andreae filius Rimskij-Korsakov. The composer romanized his name as ''Nicolas Rimsk ...

* 1885: ''

Cherevichki ''Cherevichki'' (russian: Черевички , ua, Черевички, ''Cherevichki'', ''Čerevički'', ''The Slippers''; alternative renderings are ''The Little Shoes'', ''The Tsarina's Slippers'', ''The Empress's Slippers'', ''The Golden Slippe ...

'', Tchaikovsky's revision of ''Vakula the Smith'' * 1906: ''

Zhenitba ''Zhenitba'' (russian: Женитьба, italic=yes, ''Zhenit'ba'', ''Marriage'') is an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy ''Marriage''. This 1842 play is a satire of courtship ...

'', 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 ''The Fair at Sorochyntsi'' (russian: Сорочинская ярмарка, ''Sorochinskaya yarmarka'', '' Sorochyntsi Fair'') is a comic opera in three acts by Modest Mussorgsky, composed between 1874 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The compo ...

'', an unfinished opera begun in 1874 by

and first completed by

César Cui César Antonovich Cui ( rus, Це́зарь Анто́нович Кюи́, , ˈt͡sjezərʲ ɐnˈtonəvʲɪt͡ɕ kʲʊˈi, links=no, Ru-Tsezar-Antonovich-Kyui.ogg; french: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui, links=no, italic=no; 13 March 1918) was a Ru ...

– many different versions exist * 1930: '' The Nose'', a satirical opera by

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throug ...

* 1976: ''

'', an opera by Russian nationalist composer

Rodion Shchedrin Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin ( rus, Родион Константинович Щедрин, , rədʲɪˈon kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ɕːɪˈdrʲin; born 16 December 1932) is a Soviet and Russian composer and pianist, winner of USSR State ...

* 2011: ''

Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; uk, link=no, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit=Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; (russian: Яновский; uk, Яновський, translit=Yanovskyi) ( – ) was a Russian novelist, ...

'', an opera by Russian composer

Lera Auerbach Lera Auerbach (russian: Лера Авербах, born Valeria Lvovna Averbakh, russian: Валерия Львовна Авербах; October 21, 1973) is a Soviet-born American classical composer and concert pianist.

commissioned by Vienna's

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Radio

* 2006: ''

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radio adaptation

References

Sources

* Golub, Spencer. 1998. "Gogol, Nikolai (Vasilievich)." In ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre.'' Ed. Martin Banham. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 431–432. .

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gogol, Nikolai Bibliographies by writer Bibliographies of Russian writers Dramatist and playwright bibliographies