My sister in christ: he was from the Russian Empire. He used the name Nikolai Gogol himself. He wrote about the Russian Empire. His novels are about Russian politics. He was not some Ukrainian folklorist.
Weirdest Ukraine propaganda yet.
My sister in christ: he was from the Russian Empire. He used the name Nikolai Gogol himself. He wrote about the Russian Empire. His novels are about Russian politics. He was not some Ukrainian folklorist.
Weirdest Ukraine propaganda yet.
yeah I came to the same conclusion, it just seems like trying to take the present divide and retroactively applying it the whole of Russian history. The Government Inspector was inspired by a conversation with Pushkin. He clearly didn’t see himself as part of a literary movement separate from the rest of Russia but as part of the whole of Russian literature, which itself included ethnicities other than just Russian.