Gogol
NIKOLAI (gō'gol), a Russian novelist and miscellaneous writer; born in the government of Poltawa, March 31 (N. S.), 1809. He is the author of the novels " Dead Souls" and "Taras Bulba"; of a comedy entitled "The Revisor," and two collections of short tales illustrative of rural life in Little Russia, his native country. His works found great favor in Russia, and in translation in Europe and the United States. He died in Moscow, March 4 (N. S.), 1852.
GOGRA (gog'rä), or GHAGRA (ghäg rä), one of the largest affluents of the Ganges, joining that river from the N. at the town of Chapra, after a generally S.
E. course of 600 miles. It rises in the higher Himalayas, passes through Nepal, and after reaching the level land becomes the great waterway of the Northwest provinces and Oudh. Its principal tributary is the Rapti, also of commercial importance.