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Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...

 (1809-52), followed by a list of adaptations of his works:

Drama

  • Decoration of Vladimir of the Third Class, unfinished comedy (1832).
  • Marriage, comedy (1835).
  • The Gamblers, comedy (1836).
  • The Government Inspector, also translated as The Inspector General (1836).
  • Leaving the Theater, (After the Staging of a New Comedy) (1836)

Essays

  • Woman, 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
    Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written from 1831-1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol, who had spent his life in Ukraine up to the age of nineteen, was twenty two. He put his early impressions and...

    , volume I of short story collection (1831):
    • The Fair at Sorochintsï
    • St John's Eve
      St. John's Eve (short story)
      "St. John's Eve" is the second tale in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. It was first published in 1830 in the literary Russian periodical Otechestvennye Zapiski in February and March issues, and in the book form in 1831....

    • May Night, or the Drowned Maiden
    • The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church
      The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church
      The Lost Letter is the fourth Ukrainian tale in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.The story is told by an exuberant narrator, the old sexton Foma, who will return with another story, A Bewitched Place, in the next volume...

  • Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
    Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
    Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written from 1831-1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol, who had spent his life in Ukraine up to the age of nineteen, was twenty two. He put his early impressions and...

    , volume II of short story collection (1832):
    • Christmas Eve
      Christmas Eve (Gogol)
      Christmas Eve , literally translated The Night Before Christmas, is the first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.-Plot:...

    • A Terrible Vengeance
      A Terrible Vengeance
      A Terrible Vengeance is a Gothic horror story by Nikolai Gogol. It was published in the second volume of his first short story collection, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, in 1832, and it was probably written in late Summer 1831....

    • Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
    • A Bewitched Place
      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 ....

  • Arabesques, short story collection (1835):
    • The Portrait
      The Portrait (short story)
      The Portrait is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection Arabesques in 1835....

    • A Chapter from an Historical Novel (fragment)
    • Nevsky Prospect
      Nevsky Prospekt (story)
      Nevsky Prospect is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, written between 1831 and 1834, and published in 1835.- Summary :Influenced strongly by the Sentimental movement, the protagonist of "Nevsky Prospekt" is a pathetic and insignificant romantic, the narrator is chatty and unreliable, and realism...

    • The Prisoner (fragment)
    • Diary of a Madman
  • Mirgorod
    Mirgorod (Gogol)
    Mirgorod is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol meant to be a sequel of sorts to his two volumes of Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka...

    , short story collection in two volumes (1835):
    • The Old World Landowners
      The Old World Landowners
      The Old World Landowners , a short story written in 1835, is the first tale in the Mirgorod collection by Nikolai Gogol...

    • Taras Bulba
      Taras Bulba
      Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novel by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home...

    • Viy
      Viy (story)
      "Viy" is a horror short story by the Ukrainian-born Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, first published in the first volume of his collection of tales entitled Mirgorod . The title refers to the name of a demonic entity central to the plot....

    • The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
      The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
      "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" "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, translit...

  • The Nose, short story (1836-1836)
  • The Carriage
    The Carriage
    The Carriage is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, one of his shortest works. After reading it, Anton Chekhov wrote to Alexei Suvorin, "What an artist he is! His 'Carriage' alone is worth two hundred thousand rubles...

    , short story (1836)
  • Rome, fragment (1842)
  • The Overcoat, short story (1842)
  • Dead Souls
    Dead Souls
    Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol...

    , novel (1842), intended as the first part of a trilogy
    Trilogy
    A trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games...

    .

Poetry

  • Ode to Italy, poem (1829)
  • Hanz Küchelgarten, narrative poem published under the pseudonym "V. Alov" (1829)

Film

  • 1913
    1913 in film
    The year 1913 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* The Squaw Man, the first Hollywood feature film, is made.* December 29, Charlie Chaplin signs a contract with Mack Sennett to begin making films at Keystone Studios.* D. W...

    : The Night Before Christmas
    The Night Before Christmas (1913 film)
    The Night Before Christmas is a 1913 silent film made in the Russian Empire by Ladislas Starevich, based on the tale of the same name by Nikolai Gogol...

    , a 41-minute film by Ladislas Starevich
    Ladislas Starevich
    Vladislav Starevich , born Władysław Starewicz , was a Russian and French stop-motion animator who used insects and other animals as his protagonists...

     which contains some of the first combinations of stop motion
    Stop motion
    Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...

     animation with live action
  • 1926
    1926 in film
    -Events:*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....

    : The Overcoat
    The Overcoat (1926 film)
    The Overcoat is a 1926 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, based on Nikolai Gogol stories "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat".-Cast:* Andrei Kostrichkin - Akaki Akakievich* Antonina Yeremeyeva* Sergei Gerasimov - Yaryzhka...

    , a Soviet silent film directed by Grigori Kozintsev
    Grigori Kozintsev
    Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev was a Jewish Ukrainian, Soviet Russian theatre and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts...

     and Leonid Trauberg
    Leonid Trauberg
    Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg was a Jewish Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941.-Filmography:* The Adventures of Oktyabrina ...

  • 1945
    1945 in film
    The year 1945 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Paramount Studios releases theatrical short cartoon titled The Friendly Ghost, featuring a ghost named Casper.* With Rossellini's Roma Città aperta, Italian neorealist cinema begins....

    : The Lost Letter
    The Lost Letter
    The Lost Letter , or A Disappeared Diploma, is a 1945 Soviet animated film directed by the Brumberg sisters and Lamis Bredis. It is the first Soviet cel-animated feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story with the same name by Nikolai...

    , the Soviet Union's first feature
    Feature film
    In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

    -length traditionally-animated
    Traditional animation
    Traditional animation, is an animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand...

     film
  • 1949
    1949 in film
    The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello...

    : The Inspector General
    The Inspector General (film)
    The Inspector General is a 1949 musical comedy film. It stars Danny Kaye and was directed by Henry Koster. The film also stars Walter Slezak, Gene Lockhart, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Hale Sr. and Rhys Williams. Original music by Sylvia Fine and Johnny Green.-Premise:The film is loosely...

    , a musical comedy and very loose adaptation directed by Henry Koster
    Henry Koster
    Henry Koster was born Hermann Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany. He became a film director and later moved to Hollywood. Koster's father, a salesman, left home when Henry was a young man...

     and starring Danny Kaye
    Danny Kaye
    Danny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...

    .
  • 1951
    1951 in film
    The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Sweden - May Britt is scouted by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...

    : The Night Before Christmas
    The Night Before Christmas (1951 film)
    The Night Before Christmas is a 1951 Soviet animated film directed by the Brumberg sisters and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film is based on Nikolai Gogol's story The Night Before Christmas....

    , an animated feature film directed by the Brumberg sisters
  • 1952
    1952 in film
    The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City....

    : Il Cappotto
    Il Cappotto
    The Overcoat is a 1952 Italian fantasy-drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada. It is based on a short tale of the same name written by Nikolai Gogol.-Plot:...

    , an Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     film directed by Alberto Lattuada
    Alberto Lattuada
    Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada...

  • 1959
    1959 in film
    The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.-Events:* The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters....

    : The Overcoat
    The Overcoat (1959 film)
    The Overcoat is a 1959 Soviet film directed by Aleksey Batalov, based on Nikolai Gogol story "The Overcoat".-Cast:* Rolan Bykov - Akaki Akakiyevich* Yuri Tolubeyev - Petrovich* Aleksandra Yozhkina - Petrovich's Wife* Elena Ponsova - Landlady...

    , a Soviet film directed by Aleksey Batalov
    Aleksey Batalov
    Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov is a Soviet and Russian actor who has been acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.-Biography:...

  • 1962
    1962 in film
    The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....

    : Taras Bulba
    Taras Bulba (film)
    Taras Bulba is a 1962 film loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's short novel, Taras Bulba, starring Yul Brynner in the title role, and Tony Curtis as his son, Andrei, leaders of a Cossack clan on the Ukrainian steppes. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson...

    , a Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

    n/American film directed by J. Lee Thompson
    J. Lee Thompson
    John Lee Thompson , better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood.- Early years :...

  • 1963
    1963 in film
    The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....

    : The Nose, a short film by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker
    Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker
    Alexandre Alexandrovitch Alexeieff was a Russian-born artist, filmmaker and illustrator who lived and worked mainly in Paris...

     using pinscreen animation
    Pinscreen animation
    Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is lit from the side so that the pins cast shadows...

  • 1967
    1967 in film
    The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film.-Events:* December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television....

    : Viy
    Viy
    Viy may refer to:*Viy , by Ukrainian and Russian writer Nikolai Gogol*Viy , based on the Nikolai Gogol story*Viy , Ukrainian band*Viy, Azerbaijan, a village in Lankaran Rayon...

    , a horror film made on Mosfilm
    Mosfilm
    Mosfilm is a film studio, which is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely-acclaimed Soviet films, ranging from works by Tarkovsky and Eisenstein , to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production and the epic Война и Мир...

     and based on the Nikolai Gogol
    Nikolai Gogol
    Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...

     story of the same name.
  • 1984
    1984 in film
    -Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

    : Dead Souls, directed by Mikhail Shveytser
  • 1997
    1997 in film
    -Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

    : The Night Before Christmas, a 26-minute stop-motion-animated film http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=1814
  • 20??: The Overcoat
    The Overcoat (animated film)
    The Overcoat is an upcoming animated feature film that has been the main project of acclaimed Russian director and animator Yuriy Norshteyn since 1981. It is based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol with the same name....

    , an upcoming film by acclaimed animator Yuriy Norshteyn
    Yuriy Norshteyn
    Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn , or Yuri Norstein is an award-winning Soviet and Russian animator best known for his animated shorts, Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales...

    , being worked on since 1981

Opera

  • 1874: Vakula the Smith
    Vakula the Smith
    Vakula the Smith , is an opera in 3 acts, 8 scenes, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, his Opus 14. The libretto was written by Yakov Polonsky and is based on Nikolai Gogol's story Christmas Eve . It was written for composer Alexander Serov, who died in 1871 leaving only fragments of an opera on the subject...

    , an opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  • 1880: May Night
    May Night
    May Night is an 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 his collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka....

    , an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...

  • 1885: Cherevichki
    Cherevichki
    Cherevichki [alternative renderings are The Little Shoes, The Tsarina's Slippers, Les caprices d'Oxane, and Gli stivaletti] is a comic-fantastic opera in 4 acts, 8 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was composed in 1885 in Maidanovo, Russia...

    , Tchaikovsky's revision of Vakula the Smith
  • 1906: Zhenitba
    Zhenitba (opera)
    Zhenitba 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 and cowardice, which centres around a young woman, Agafya, who is wooed by four bachelors, each with his own...

    , an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky
    Modest Mussorgsky
    Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...

  • 1917: The Fair at Sorochyntsi, an unfinished opera begun in 1874 by Modest Mussorgsky
    Modest Mussorgsky
    Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...

     and first completed by César Cui
    César Cui
    César Antonovich Cui was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a...

     - many different versions exist
  • 1930: The Nose
    The Nose (opera)
    The Nose is a satirical opera composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. The libretto by Shostakovich, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, and Alexander Preis is based on the story The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. The plot concerns a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own...

    , a satirical opera by Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

  • 1976: Dead Souls, an opera by Russian nationalist composer Rodion Shchedrin
    Rodion Shchedrin
    Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin is a Russian composer. He was one оf the leading Soviet composers, and was the chairman of the Union of Russian Composers from 1973 until 1990.-Life and Works:...

  • 2011: Gogol, an opera by Russian composer Lera Auerbach
    Lera Auerbach
    Lera Auerbach is a Russian-born American composer and pianist.-Early life & education:Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. She holds degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition...

     commissioned by Vienna's Theater an der Wien
    Theater an der Wien
    The Theater an der Wien is a historic theatre on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district of Vienna. Completed in 1801, it has seen the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music...


Sources

  • Golub, Spencer. 1998. "Gogol, Nikolai (Vasilievich)." In The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Ed. Martin Banham. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 431-432. ISBN 0521434378.
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