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Why didn't a noble family change their last name from a kind of duck to something more prest...
Actually, the answer is a bit confusing.
The name was apparently originally a 'normal' one before one of Nikolai's ancestors added the 'Gogol' bit.
A Reference Guide to Russian Literature tells us:
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