Born Nikolai Ianovsky in the Ukraine, his grandfather made him change his last name so he would sound like a noble Cossack.
Born Nikolai Ianovsky in the Ukraine, his grandfather made him change his last name so he would sound like a noble Cossack. This author and playwright was influenced by a 1831 meeting with Pushkin, and he even published stories in Pushkin's journal. Who is the Russian author, FTP, who pioneered critical realism and wrote such stories as The Nose and Taras Bulba, but was most famous for his play The Inspector General and his novel Dead Souls?
Born Nikolai Ianovsky in the Ukraine, his grandfather made him change his last name so he would sound like a noble Cossack.
Nikolai Vasilyevich {Gogol}