My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings.

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Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 - 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852), born in Sorochyntsi in the Russian Empire's Poltava Governorate (in today's Ukraine), was a novelist, short-story writer and playwright of Ukrainian Cossack origin. Drawing on Ukrainian folklore in Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1831) and turning satirical fire on imperial bureaucracy and serfdom in The Government Inspector (1836) and Dead Souls (1842), he is regarded as a founder of Russian realism. He died in Moscow nine days after burning most of the manuscript of Dead Souls Part Two.
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