![]() He graduated seven years later, and in December 1828, at the age of nineteen, left his native province to try his fortunes in the Russian capital. In 1821 Gogol was sent to boarding school in Nezhin, near Kiev. Nicholas the Wonderworker, for whom Gogol was named. In the church of Dikanka there was an icon of St. Nearby was the town of Dikanka, once the property of Kochubey, the most famous hetman of the independent Ukraine. His childhood was spent on Vassilyevka, a modest estate belonging to his mother. Andrei Sinyavsky, In Gogol's Shadow Nikolai Vassilyevich Gogol was born on April 1, 1809, in the village of Sorochintsy, Mirgorod district, Poltava province, in the Ukraine, also known as Little Russia. ![]() Art is provincial in principle, preserving for itself a naive, external, astonished and envious outlook. ![]() THE COLLECTED TALES OF NIKOLAI GOGOL Translated and Annotated by RICHARD PEVEAR and LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY FIRST VINTAGE CLASSICS EDITION, JULY 1999 ISBN: 0679430237 1 Preface Art has the provinces in its blood. ![]()
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