Olga Ruchina on Instagram: "Was Nikolai Gogol buried alive? For many decades, a disturbing legend has circulated claiming that the writer Nikolai Gogol was buried while still in a lethargic sleep. Gogol died in Moscow on February 21, 1852. Even during his lifetime, he was surrounded by an aura of mystery, partly because of his dark, introspective personality, and partly because his close friends knew about his intense fear of being buried alive. Gogol suffered from taphophobia and openly wrote a