RUSSIAN WISDOM & WISECRACKS
"There is hardly a greater pleasure than to create."
Nikolai Gogol
1809-1852
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1853) is best known for his short story “The Overcoat” & political satire "Dead Souls." Like many creative geniuses, Gogol had a reputation for eccentricity.
In 1836 Gogol published "The Nose," a short story about a nose that detaches itself from the face of a St. Petersburg official & wanders around town, leading its own independent existence. Gogol was so ashamed of his own nose, he often covered his face with a purple cloth.
Gogol was haunted by taphophobia - fear of being buried alive. As prevention, he would sleep sitting upright & his will requested that he be buried only when his body was clearly decomposing.
Nikolai Gogol
1809-1852
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1853) is best known for his short story “The Overcoat” & political satire "Dead Souls." Like many creative geniuses, Gogol had a reputation for eccentricity.
In 1836 Gogol published "The Nose," a short story about a nose that detaches itself from the face of a St. Petersburg official & wanders around town, leading its own independent existence. Gogol was so ashamed of his own nose, he often covered his face with a purple cloth.
Gogol was haunted by taphophobia - fear of being buried alive. As prevention, he would sleep sitting upright & his will requested that he be buried only when his body was clearly decomposing.
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