He is seen by many contemporary critics as one of the greatest short story writers who has ever lived, and the Father of Russia’s Golden Age of Realism. Upon his return to Russia, under the encouragement of the fanatical priest, Father Konstantinovskii, Gogol subjected himself to a fatal course of fasting. As he got older, criticism of his work began to drain him, and he turned to religion, making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1848. Gogol spent time living abroad in later life, settling in Rome and developing a passion for opera. He also published Dead Souls (1842), a satirisation of serfdom, seen by many critics as the first ‘modern’ Russian novel and his greatest longer work. Of these, ‘The Nose’ is regarded as a masterwork of comic short fiction, and ‘The Overcoat’ is now seen as one of the greatest short stories ever written some years later, Dostoyevsky famously stated We all come out from Gogol’s ‘Overcoat’. Over the next decade or so, he worked with great industry, producing a great amount of short stories. Around this time, Gogol met the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, with whom he developed a close friendship. It met with immediate success, and he followed it a year later with a second volume. In 1831, Gogol brought out the first volume of his Ukrainian stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. It was universally derided, and Gogol bought and destroyed all the copies, swearing never to write poetry again.

At his own expense, he published a long Romantic poem. Petersburg with the ambition of becoming a professional author.

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