Short answers, pulled from the story.
Nikolai Gogol died on the 3rd of March 1852 after refusing all food for nine days following a mental collapse. His death resulted from exaggerated ascetic practices that undermined his health before this final breakdown.
On the night of the 24th of February 1852, Nikolai Gogol burned some of his manuscripts containing most of the second part of Dead Souls. He explained this act as a mistake or a practical joke played upon him by the Devil.
Nikolai Gogol was originally buried at Danilov Monastery near his fellow Slavophile Aleksey Khomyakov. Soviet authorities transferred his remains to Novodevichy Cemetery in 1931 after demolishing the monastery.
Dead Souls appeared in Moscow in 1842 under the title The Adventures of Chichikov due to censorship. It established his reputation as one of the greatest prose writers in the Russian language.
Oleh Ilnytzkyj contends that Russian functioned merely as an imperial lingua franca rather than a marker of nationality for Nikolai Gogol. He views Gogol as fundamentally a Ukrainian writer operating within an imperial framework despite attempts to sustain earlier creative efforts.