The March/April issue of Russian Life, a bimonthly magazine based in Montpelier, includes a package of stories commemorating the 200th birthday of 19th-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. So why did ...
The thing about big plans is that they require people to carry them out. The problem of personnel particularly plagued Peter the Great. Convinced by his European advisers that his country was backward ...
A character to challenge the best writers. By Bret Stephens Nikolai Gogol, the 19th-century author and playwright, understood better than any artist since what “perfect nonsense goes on in the world.” ...