[Gogol] Mirgorod (1835) is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol meant to be a sequel of sorts to his two volumes of Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. The stories in Mirgorod are of similar origin and based on Ukrainian folklore, though they seem to have a sense of nostalgia and some characters are believed to be portrayals of Gogol...
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(from the article `Gogol, Nikolay`) ...history at St. Petersburg University, but he felt inadequately equipped for the position and left it after a year. Meanwhile, he prepared ...
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