The Overcoat
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol · English
The Overcoat (Russian: Шинель, Shinel, 1842) is a celebrated short story by Nikolai Gogol, one of the foundational works of Russian realism.
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The Overcoat (Russian: Шинель, Shinel, 1842) is a celebrated short story by Nikolai Gogol, one of the foundational works of Russian realism. Dostoevsky famously declared, "We all came out of Gogol's Overcoat." The story follows Akakiy Akakievich Bashmachkin, a humble titular councillor in St. Petersburg who scrimps and saves to buy a new overcoat, only to have it stolen on his first night out. The ensuing official indifference, his death, and a fantastic ghostly epilogue blend satire, pity, and the supernatural in a way that defined the Petersburg short story and influenced generations of Russian writers including Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Bulgakov.
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Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), born in Ukraine, was a Russian writer of short stories, novels, and plays, regarded as the founder of Russian realism and a master of the grotesque. His works include Dead Souls (1842), The Inspector General (1836), Diary of a Madman (1835), The Nose (1836), and Taras Bulba (1835). Gogol's last years were marked by religious crisis; he died in Moscow at 42 after burning the second part of Dead Souls.
The Overcoat
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol · English
The Overcoat (Russian: Шинель, Shinel, 1842) is a celebrated short story by Nikolai Gogol, one of the foundational works of Russian realism.
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In the department of—but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service. Each individual attached to them nowadays thinks all society insulted in his person. Quite recently a complaint was received from a justice of the peace, in which he plainly demonstrated that all the imperial institutions were going to the dogs, and that the Czar’s sacred name was being taken in vain; and in proof he appended to the complaint a romance in which the justice of the peace is made to app
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The Overcoat (Russian: Шинель, Shinel, 1842) is a celebrated short story by Nikolai Gogol, one of the foundational works of Russian realism. Dostoevsky famously declared, "We all came out of Gogol's Overcoat." The story follows Akakiy Akakievich Bashmachkin, a humble titular councillor in St. Petersburg who scrimps and saves to buy a new overcoat, only to have it stolen on his first night out. The ensuing official indifference, his death, and a fantastic ghostly epilogue blend satire, pity, and the supernatural in a way that defined the Petersburg short story and influenced generations of Russian writers including Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Bulgakov.
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Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), born in Ukraine, was a Russian writer of short stories, novels, and plays, regarded as the founder of Russian realism and a master of the grotesque. His works include Dead Souls (1842), The Inspector General (1836), Diary of a Madman (1835), The Nose (1836), and Taras Bulba (1835). Gogol's last years were marked by religious crisis; he died in Moscow at 42 after burning the second part of Dead Souls.
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