Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on media reports about the alleged use of fortune-teller ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The question of Nikolai Gogol’s “belonging”—especially now, as Ukrainian and Russian cultures, long bound by an imperial past, are ...

Nikolai Gogol is one of Russia’s most beloved writers. Gogol wrote short stories and plays, and died at the young age of 43. Your local library has a wide selection of materials both on or about him.

A character to challenge the best writers. By Bret Stephens Nikolai Gogol, the 19th-century author and playwright, understood better than any artist since what “perfect nonsense goes on in the world.” ...

What to make of Nikolai Gogol, Russia’s “greatest comic writer,” who “thoroughly baffled his contemporaries”? “Everywhere Gogol describes a world of incandescent inanity,” Gary Saul Morson writes: ...

Three years after the publication of his magnum opus, Nikolai Gogol was in the midst of a spiritual breakdown. Dead Souls entered the Russian literary conversation like a shocking new fashion trend.

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was, as Vladimir Nabokov put it, "a strange creature", and a strange leitmotiv runs through his collected stories: there are several absent or errant noses. The rambling ...

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. The 19th century is considered the golden age of Russian literature: Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev ...

First, it was politics, then it was gas. Now the protracted antagonism between Russia and Ukraine is taking on a literary tinge, as the bickering neighbours vie for the legacy of Nikolai Gogol on the ...

A new Russian film aimed at a youth audience reinvents classic novelist Nikolai Gogol as a gothic-style detective who battles dark supernatural forces to solve a series of ritual murders. A statue of ...

Donald Trump may not realize it, but he has adopted the strategy that was recommended to Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, the shady protagonist of Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls,” whose lawyer (in the ...