Gogoli N. (Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852)

One of Russia’s Ukraine’s most brilliant writers. Author of Dead Souls, Diary of a Madman, The Greatcoat, The Nose, The Government Inspector and, regrettably, Taras Bulba. Interestingly, while Samuel Beckett wrote in French (sorta, don’t @ me), Joseph Conrad in English, and even Descartes who scribbled in Latin, are all respectively identified as Irish, Polish and French, Gogol is still commonly called a ‘Russian’ writer. Soviet occupation renaming (1952-1989) of Raua.