Bibliography of Nikolai Gogol

This is a list of the works by Nikolai Gogol (1809-52); a list of adaptations of those works is at the bottom: __NOTOC__

*"Ode to Italy" (1829, poem)
*"Hanz Küchelgarten" (1829, narrative poem, published under the pseudonym "V. Alov")
*"Woman" (1830, short story)
*"Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" (Volume I, 1831, short story collection)
**"Preface (collection opening)"
**"The Fair at Sorochintsï (short story)" (the basis for Mussorgsky's opera of the same name)
**"St. John's Eve (short story)" (the basis for Mussorgsky's orchestral work best known under the title "Night on Bald Mountain")
**"May Night or the Drowned Maiden" (the basis for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name and of Mykola Lysenko's opera "The Drowned Maiden" ["Utoplena"] )
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*"Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" (Volume II, 1832, short story collection)
**"Preface (collection opening, Volume II)"
**"Christmas Eve" (the basis for several operas, including Tchaikovsky's "Cherevichki" (the revised version of "Vakula the Smith"), Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, and Mykola Lysenko's like-named (in Ukrainian) "Rivnaja nič")
**"A Terrible Vengeance"
**"Ivan Fedorovic Sponka and his Aunt"
**"A Bewitched Place"
*"Mirgorod" (1835, short story collection, published in two volumes)
**"The Old World Landowners"
**"Taras Bulba" (the basis for an opera of the same name by Mykola Lysenko)
**"Viy"
**"The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich"
*"Arabesques" (1835, short story collection)
**"The Portrait (short story)"
**"A Chapter from an Historical Novel" (fragment)
**"Nevsky Prospect"
**"The Prisoner" (fragment)
**"Diary of a Madman (short story)"
*"The Nose" (1836, short story, the basis for an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich)
*"The Carriage" (1836, short story)
*"The Government Inspector" (1836, play, a.k.a. "The Inspector General")
*"Leaving the Theater" (1842, essay)
*"Rome" (1842, fragment)
*"The Overcoat" (1842, short story)
*"Zhenitba" (or "Zhenit'ba" – "The Marriage", 1842, comedy, play, the first act of which was adapted by Mussorgsky as an opera of the same name, completed by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov)
*"Dead Souls" (1842, novel)
*"The Gamblers" (1843, play)
*"Selected Passages from Correspondence with his Friends" (1847, collection of letters and essays)
**"Meditations on the Divine Liturgy"

Adaptations

Film

* 1913—"The Night Before Christmas", a 41-minute film by Ladislas Starevich which contains some of the first combinations of stop motion animation with live action
* 1926—"The Overcoat", a Soviet silent film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
* 1945—"The Lost Letter", the Soviet Union's first feature-length traditionally-animated film
* 1949—"The Inspector General", a musical comedy and very loose adaptation directed by Henry Koster and starring Danny Kaye.
*1951—"The Night Before Christmas", an animated feature film directed by the Brumberg sisters
*1952—"Il Cappotto", an Italian film directed by Alberto Lattuada
*1959—"The Overcoat", a Soviet film directed by Aleksey Batalov
*1962—"Taras Bulba", a Yugoslavian/American film directed by J. Lee Thompson
*1963—"The Nose", a short film by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker using pinscreen animation
*1967—"Viy", a horror film made on Mosfilm and based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name.
*1984—"Dead Souls", directed by Mikhail Shveytser
*1997—"The Night Before Christmas", a 26-minute stop-motion-animated film [http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=1814]
*20??—"The Overcoat", an upcoming film by acclaimed animator Yuriy Norshteyn, being worked on since 1981

Opera

*1874—"Vakula the Smith", an opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
*1880—"May Night", an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
*1885—"Cherevichki", Tchaikovsky's revision of "Vakula the Smith"
*1906—"Zhenitba", an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky
*1917—"The Fair at Sorochyntsi", an unfinished opera begun in 1874 by Modest Mussorgsky and first completed by César Cui - many different versions exist
*1930—"The Nose", a satirical opera by Dmitri Shostakovich
*1976—"Dead Souls", an opera by Russian nationalist composer Rodion Shchedrin

Other

* 2006—"Dead Souls", a BBC radio adaptation