Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852) was a well-known Russian novelist and short-story writer. He was born and raised in Ukraine and moved to St. Petersburg in 1828. His short story "The Carriage" was published in the first volume of Pushkin's literary journal The Contemporary in 1836. It is speculated that Gogol wrote the short story to echo Pushkin's Tales of Belkin, as he mimics Pushkin's use of anecdotes, irony, and structure in media res.[2] It is classified as one of his Petersburg tales (along with "Nevsky Prospekt", "The Diary of a Madman", "The Nose", "The Overcoat", and "The Portrait"). The Petersburg Tales create a profile of St. Petersburg as the only modern city in imperial Russia. The stories focus on the great administrative city's indifference to the plight of individuals, describing the personal narratives of people rebelling against its climate.[3]
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