Nikolai Gogol

He was inspired to write this melody from a short story by Nikolai Gogol called St. John's Eve. The plot of the story refers to the witches' sabbath, which occurs on a bald mountaintop each year near the summer solstice. This was a hard piece for Mussorgsky to write because he often had ideas that he couldn't get out…

Stalin’s journey to the top could not be completed without allies. He found one with Kamenev and fellow pallbearer at Lenin’s funeral, Zinoviev who spoke out for him. His further rise to power is also attributed to Trotski’s decline “to take the fight to the ‘troika’ of Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev” (Service, Stalin 223). Although Stalin did not chair the Politburo after Lenin’s death, he strategized in how to secure his future. According to Robert Service, Stalin replaced his rivals if they…

Pravda was a daily newspaper that tried to prove labor activism and expose the working conditions in Russian factories. The first paper of Pravda was issued on May 5, 1912 in St. Petersburg by the Bolshevik's of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The paper was closed eight times in the first two years and every time it closed, the Bolsheviks reopened it under a new name "Worker's Truth," etc. Pravda represents Squealer in the book Animal Farm because Squealer tells lies to try to get everybody…

Mr. Molotov’s Life of War According to Nikita Khrushchev, “Molotov took the name hammer just as Stalin had taken the name steel, and Stalin did indeed use Molotov to smash his opposition into submission and to pound his own power base into shapes” showing that Molotov was a tool for construction that Stalin used as he saw fit. Vyacheslav’s original last name was Skryabin, but changed it to Molotov which literally meant the hammer. Molotov was arrested and banished twice in his lifetime, once…

Orin Richardson: Composer Biography Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born into a Russian noble family with an extensive history of military and government service on the 18th of March, 1844 in the small village of Tikhvin. Even though both of his parents were illegitimate children, his father, Andrei Petrovich Rimsky-Korsakov, used his connection with a Russian general to regain his family’s noble status, and later worked in the Interior Ministry of the Russian Empire. His older brother, Voin…

Madness is the state of being mentally ill, especially severely. In the short stories “A Madman’s Diary” by Lu Xun, “Memoirs of a Madman” by Nikolai Gogol, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the protagonists are driven by their surroundings. In “A Madman’s Diary” by Lu Xun the protagonists is driven by external factors during the beginning of the story , “...at the time they were not yet born, so why should they eye me so strangely today” (Xun). He thinks everyone is looking…

In Lahiri’s book, names plays an important role in the protagonist daily life yet the reader does not know whether to refer to the protagonist as Gogol or Nikhil. The narrator refers to him consistently as Gogol while other characters in the book call him Nikhil. The reader has to determine which degree of intimacy they maintain with the character. The protagonist, Gogol’s, deals with fierceness between his real name and his pet name. Why is it so important that Lahiri has written an…

The paper plans to investigate the issue of Identity which emerges because of various social practices before the offspring of Indian parentage. Gogol and different characters in The Namesake confront this never-ending predicament as confronted by immigrants while settling their lives in another land. They battle to keep up their personalities while attempting to shake them off in the meantime. It is especially engaging that Jhumpa Lahiri is the offspring of Indian settlers .Immigration is a…

In “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol Kovalev finds himself too intimated to talk to the nose when it has a higher ranking than him. By making Kovalev intimidated by his own nose Gogol is making a political statement by making fun of the fact that citizens of his society were afraid of interacting with people in different social classes than them. Kovalev will not confront his nose because he notices the nose has more status than him. Even though Kovalev is confident in his ranking he will not talk…

two children. Along comes a son, Gogol and a daughter, Sonia. Their son was fine with his, however as an adolescent the boy comes to hate it. Gogol got his name, which is not Indian or American but inspired by his father’s favorite…