Complete Tales - Nikolai Gogol

Volume # 1 

Many writers and critics have recognized Gogol's huge influence on Russian, Ukrainian and world literature. Gogol's influence was acknowledged by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor and others.[16][17] Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat." Wiki