![]() ![]() Gogol attempted to finish the next volume of Dead Souls for the next few years, but his creative output declined. Dead Souls was published in 1842, the same year that his first collection of his works featuring the famous short story “The Overcoat” was released. Gogol traveled through Germany and Switzerland before settling in Rome, where he finished the first volume of his book Dead Souls. His play, The Government Inspector, was performed as a result of a direct order from the tsar, Nicholas I. He continued to write throughout the 1830s, releasing Mirgorod and two volumes of prose titled Arabesques. ![]() He then took up a low-paying bureaucratic job and published sporadically for periodicals until achieving his literary breakthrough with Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. Unable, at first, to form the connections necessary to secure a job, he traveled to Germany and returned to St. Petersburg to acquire a civil service job and work on achieving literary fame. ![]() Nikolai Gogol lived in the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy with his parents, who belonged to the “petty gentry,” a class of society distinguished by self-management of its lands and farms. ![]()
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