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Author Description People consider that Russian writer <b>Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol</b> (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17684162._________________________" title="Николай Васильевич Гоголь" rel="nofollow noopener">Николай Васильевич Гоголь</a>) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537094.The_Overcoat" title="The Overcoat" rel="nofollow noopener">The Overcoat</a> </i> (1842) and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28381.Dead_Souls" title="Dead Souls" rel="nofollow noopener">Dead Souls</a> </i> (1842).<br /><br />Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/128382.Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy" rel="nofollow noopener">Leo Tolstoy</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/410680.Ivan_Turgenev" title="Ivan Turgenev" rel="nofollow noopener">Ivan Turgenev</a>, and especially <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29755847.Fyodor_Dostoyevsky" title="Fyodor Dostoyevsky" rel="nofollow noopener">Fyodor Dostoyevsky</a>. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.<br /><br />Gogol first used the techniques of surrealism and the grotesque in his works <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1215290.The_Nose" title="The Nose" rel="nofollow noopener">The Nose</a> </i>, <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14290722.Viy" title="Viy" rel="nofollow noopener">Viy</a> </i>, <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537094.The_Overcoat" title="The Overcoat" rel="nofollow noopener">The Overcoat</a> </i>, and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12770458.Nevsky_Prospekt" title="Nevsky Prospekt" rel="nofollow noopener">Nevsky Prospekt</a> </i>. Ukrainian upbringing, culture, and folklore influenced his early works, such as <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21102062.Evenings_on_a_Farm_near_Dikanka" title="Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" rel="nofollow noopener">Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka</a> </i> . <br />His later writing satirized political corruption in the Russian empire in <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28381.Dead_Souls" title="Dead Souls" rel="nofollow noopener">Dead Souls</a> </i>.<br />

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