Dead Souls

Мертвые души

The Overcoat

Шинель

The Government Inspector

Ревизор

The Nose

Нос

Taras Bulba

Тарас Бульба

Вий

Diary of a Madman

Записки сумасшедшего

The Portrait

Портрет

Nevsky Prospect

Невский проспект

How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich

Как поссорился Иван Иванович с Иваном Никифоровичем

Old World Landowners

Старосветские помещики

A Terrible Vengeance

Страшная месть

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки

May Night, or the Drowned Maiden

Майская ночь, или Утопленница

The portrait exhibited in Tretyakov Gallery is author’s replica of the original portrait painted for the mother of Nikolai Gogol in 1841 in Rome.The original portrait was kept in Vasilievka, Gogol’s estate, then it was at the house of A.V. Gogol, the sister of the writer. In 1919 S.N. Bykova, the grand-nephew of N. Gogol, transferred the original portrait to the collection of Poltava Museum of Local History, where the portrait was housed till 1941. It was lost during the German occupation of Ukraine.

Nikolai Gogol

Books