Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub was a minor Russian writer, author of novelettes, essays, plays, and memoirs.
Vladimir Sollogub
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
Portrait of Nikolai Gogol by Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller (early 1840s)
Cover of the first edition of The Government Inspector (1836)
Commemorative plaque on his house in Rome
One of several portraits of Gogol by Fyodor Moller (1840)