While his family name was Ianovskii, his grandfather took “Gogol” to connect him to his Cossack ancestry. Gogol was born on Main the Poltava province in Ukraine.
He was the first writer of the so-called Ukrainian school in Russian literature to employ a host of lexical and syntactic Ukrainianisms, primarily to play with various stylistic levels from the vulgar to the pathetic.”
His language is exceptionally rhythmic and euphonic. Vladimir Nabokov called him “the strangest prose-poet Russia ever produced.” Scholars Dmytro Chyzhevsky and Danylo Husar Struk say of his writing, “Gogol's works display different variations of the Romantic style and a masterly use of metaphor, hyperbole, and ironic grotesque. Nikolai Gogol is one of Russia’s most famous writers, renowned for his short stories, novels, and plays.
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