Vasili Gogol-Yanovsky

Vasili Afanasyevich Gogol-Yanovsky^[1][2] (Russian: Василий Афанасьевич Гоголь-Яновский; 1777 – 31 March (11 April) 1825), also known as Vasyl Panasovych Hohol-Yanovsky^[3][4][5][6] (Ukrainian: Василь Панасович Гоголь-Яновський), was an author of a number of theater pieces in Russian and in Ukrainian and father of the writer Nikolai Gogol. He was the landlord of the village of Vasilyevka (now Hoholeve, Poltava Oblast) and descendant of Ukrainian Cossack noble families of Gogol (Hohol) and Lizogub.

Vasili Gogol-Yanovsky loved writing comedic stage plays in Russian as well as in Ukrainian, which were successfully put on by the famous theatre patron Dmitry Troshchinsky.