From site http://realc.emory.edu/russian/DOSTOEVSKY/writers.html
A short-story writer and novelist of Ukranian origin, Gogol worked as a clerk in St. Petersburg while writing his first works. This experience influenced seminal works such as The Overcoat. Dead Souls, his final work offers caricatures human folly and sin. A realistic but fantastic writer, Gogol believed strongly in the unique power of the Orthodox Church to save Russia from impending doom.
They didn't mention that he wrote some famous plays. And I didn't know there were any photographs of him! Gogol's Dead Souls, The Nose and Diary of a Madman, are some of the best works ever written by anyone! They are witty and bizarre. He was, after all, crazy.
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