Toorgenef, gogol, Pisanski, and Goncharov are Russian names whose excellence in literature have familiarized them to English readers.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
All the rooms were square, so Russian with their placid family portraits, their old tables and chairs, not beautiful save for their fidelity, and old thumbed editions of Pushkin and gogol and Lermontov in the bookshelves.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole
Nicholas gogol, Fedor Dostoievsky, and Ivan Turgenieff had the priority by a small margin.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller