N.V Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on March 20 (April 1), 1809 in Sorochintsy near the Psel River, on the border of Poltava and Mirgorod counties (Poltava province).  Nicholas was named after Saint Nicholas [1].  According to family tradition, he came from an old Cossack family [11] and was supposedly a descendant of Ostap Gogol - hetman of the Right-Bank Army of the Zaporozhye Commonwealth.  Some of his ancestors pestered both the gentry and Gogol’s grandfather, Afanasy Gogol-Yanovsky (1738-1805), wrote in official paper that “his ancestors, the name of Gogol, of the Polish nation [14]”, although most biographers tend to  that he was still a "Little Russia" [9].  A number of researchers whose opinion was formulated by V.V. Veresaev believe that the descent from Ostap Gogol could have been falsified by Afanasy Demyanovich for his nobility, since the priestly lineage was an insurmountable obstacle to acquiring a noble title.

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