- Founder of realism in Russian literature.
- In the Soviet Union, he was considered the father of Russian Realism; now, most would consider him to be a father of Surrealism (Nabokov's book on Gogol has been influential in this regard).
- The band Gogol Bordello got its name from Nikolai Gogol.
- While born with the surname of Ianovskii, the reason behind his use of the name Gogol was due to his grandfather taking this name to be able to claim a noble Cossack ancestry.
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