Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol was a Russian writer and dramatist. He was born in the Ukraine in 1809. Constance Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature and one of the first English translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov. Natasha Randall is a translator, writer and scholar, living in London. Her work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times among others and she has translated the literary works of Dostoevsky and Lermontov.