‘Taras Bulbas’ is a literary epic following an older Cossack named Taras Bulba who takes his sons to war with him against the Poles who rule all of Ukraine. It is a piece of...

“The Old World Landowners” is a short story written in 1835. It is the first tale in the “Mirgorod” collection by Nikolai Gogol. The story is a vivid representation of the...

How far will a man go for love? The short story "St. John's Eve" by Nikolai Gogol from the 19th century recounts the sinister events that transpired in a poor hamlet generations...

“A most extraordinary thing happened in St. Petersburg on the twenty-fifth of March.” The opening lines of “The Nose”, one of Gogol’s best-known stories, and quite...

In Nikolai Gogol's short story "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden," a single night ends up changing the lives of many. Young Levko is the son of the head of a Ukrainian village and...

Teeming with dark humour, supernatural elements, and hard-to-believe situations, Nikolai Gogol’s “Collected Stories” is a highest form of short story fiction. With stories...

In ‘The Night of Christmas Eve’ the Devil roams free and decides to steal the moon to punish Vakula, a local blacksmith for his religious paintings, leaving the town of...

"The Fair at Sorochyntsi" by Nikolai Gogol is a short story set in a Ukrainian village in 1800. A man travels with his daughter and wife to a fair to sell some of their...

With his sense of humor and ability to observe, Nikolai Gogol presents the world with stories of little people: the weak and fragile people who try to hold on to life in the...

Listed among the most beloved Russian plays, "The Inspector General" is a vivid portrayal of human greed and foolishness. Savagely criticizing the political corruption of Imperial...