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  2. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Historically, diminutives of the given names were used in reference to commoners, to indicate an their low status: Stenka Razin, Grishka Rasputin, etc. A diminutive could be used by persons of a higher class when referring to themselves to indicate humility, e.g., when addressing to the tsar.

  3. Gogol. The Beginning - Wikipedia

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    The year is 1829. Young Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, a judicial clerk in the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery in St. Petersburg, suffers seizures on the job, falling into a semi-conscious state in which he is pursued by strange visions and writes seemingly meaningless words. The timing of his seizures coincides with acts of ...

  4. Gogol (film series) - Wikipedia

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    Gogol is a fantasy-horror films TV-series directed by Egor Baranov and produced by the Sreda production company. It is loosely based on works by Nikolai Gogol from the collection Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. The title role is played by Alexander Petrov. Six episodes of the series had theatrical premieres as compilation films. Gogol.

  5. Gogol. Viy - Wikipedia

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    When he agrees, Nikolai, unable to dissuade the villains, kills him, and the sorcerer disappears. Wounded Darina is saved Dr. Leopold Bomgart who exerts great efforts: although he has committed to operate on the living after he failed to save a child in the past, the doctor finds the courage to try again and he succeeds.

  6. Category:Films based on works by Nikolai Gogol - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Films based on works by Nikolai Gogol" ... The Gamblers (1950 film) Gogol (film series) Gogol. The Beginning; L. The Lost Letter (1972 film) M. May ...

  7. Viy (2014 film) - Wikipedia

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    Viy 3D (Russian: Вий, internationally known as Forbidden Empire, and in the UK as Forbidden Kingdom) is a 2014 Russian-Ukrainian fantasy film loosely based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name. The film was released in cinemas in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan on 30 January 2014, in the United States on 22 May 2015 and in the United ...

  8. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

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    Diminutives are very common in Modern Greek with every noun having its own diminutive. [ citation needed ] They express either small size or affection: size -aki (σπίτι/spiti "house", σπιτάκι/spitaki "little house"; λάθος/lathos "mistake", λαθάκι/lathaki "negligible mistake") or affection -ula (μάνα/mana "mother ...

  9. Dead Souls (1984 film) - Wikipedia

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    Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души, romanized: Myortvye dushi) is a 1984 Soviet television miniseries directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on Nikolai Gogol's epic poem of the same name. This story has been shared in many different interpretations.