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1809 – 1852Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)Died 4 March 1852, aged 42Nikolai Gogol was a Russian novelist and playwright whose works, including Dead Souls and The Government Inspector, shaped Russian realist literature. He died in Moscow shortly after burning the manuscript of the unfinished second part of Dead Souls.