Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls. Gift book bound in genuine leather

Chichikov's scheme with deceased peasants for credit and social status

"Dead Souls"

The dream of getting rich settled in the arsenal of human desires almost before the money itself appeared. The former official Chichikov is no stranger to this passion, so he goes to cities and villages with the non-trivial idea of acquiring deceased peasants from landlords who, according to the audit lists, were still listed as alive. For them, you can get a good money loan and finally gain a high social status. Chichikov, of course, is a fraud, but against the background of those personalities with whom his dream curve brings him, cinematically and ridiculously written out by Gogol, he causes undoubted sympathy. The author planned the moral recovery of his hero in the second and third volumes of "Dead Souls". Unfortunately, these pages are not written. Or fortunately, because now we can think of everything ourselves. The story with an open ending is an eternal greeting from the classic to each new generation.