Nikolai Gogol

 

Take an adventure in St. Petersburg, looking through the eyes of Russia's quirky writer, Nikolai Gogol. See St. Petersburg as Gogol saw it. Learn about the Gogol's despair, and how he translated that despair into some of Russia's greatest and most comedic literary works. This module contains excerpts from the film version of "Shinel'" and audio clips of Dmitri Shostakovich's "Nos".