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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Nikolai Gogol
Born: March 31, 1809
Died: March 4, 1852 (aged 42)
Bio: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Russian and Ukrainian scholars debate whether or not Gogol was of their respective nationalities.
Known for:
- Dead Souls (1842)
- The Overcoat (1842)
- The Nose (1836)
- Taras Bulba (1835)
- The Portrait (1835)
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