![]() but that they all turn out to be corrupted by gambling, alcohol, and greed. The writer seems to be saying that the worst thing about that story isn't that the living speculate on the souls of the dead. Chronicling Chichikov's negotiations and transactions, Nikolai Gogol created a monumental work that takes the form of a portrait gallery whose triviality, at first amusing, soon turns unsettling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Russia in the 1820s: Chichikov is an ordinary but clever man seeking fortune, who comes up with the unique idea of buying for next to nothing the deeds of property of deceased serfs who haven't been recorded as dead by the administration yet, in order to mortgage them and get a lot more than they are actually worth. ![]()
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