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The fictional narrator within the Italian writer Tommaso Landolfi's comic short story "Gogol's Wife" describes quite a few visits to the subject of his biography, Nikolai Gogol. At that renowned 19th century Russian author's home, the long run biographer finds Gogol, referred to through as Nikolai Vassilevitch (his own title and patronymic), having