Dead Souls — Nikolay Vasilyeviç Gogol

The story follows the exploits of Chichikov a middle aged gentleman of middling social class and means Chichikov arrives in a small town and turns on the charm to woo key local officials and landowners He reveals little about his past or his purpose as he sets about carrying out his bizarre and mysterious plan to acquire dead souls The government would tax the landowners based on how many serfs or souls the landowner owned determined by the census Censuses in this period were infrequent so landowners would often be paying taxes on serfs that were no longer living thus the dead souls It is these dead souls existing on paper only that Chichikov seeks to purchase from the landlords in the villages he visits he merely tells the prospective sellers that he has a use for them and that the sellers would be better off anyway since selling them would relieve the present owners of a needless tax burden Tanıtım Bülteninden

The story follows the exploits of Chichikov a middle aged gentleman of middling social class and means Chichikov arrives in a small town and turns on the charm to woo key local officials and landowners He reveals little about his past or his purpose as he sets about carrying out his bizarre and mysterious plan to acquire dead souls The government would tax the landowners based on how many serfs or souls the landowner owned determined by the census Censuses in this period were infrequent so landowners would often be paying taxes on serfs that were no longer living thus the dead souls It is these dead souls existing on paper only that Chichikov seeks to purchase from the landlords in the villages he visits he merely tells the prospective sellers that he has a use for them and that the sellers would be better off anyway since selling them would relieve the present owners of a needless tax burden

The story follows the exploits of Chichikov a middle aged gentleman of middling social class and means Chichikov arrives in a small town and turns on the charm to woo key local officials and landowners He reveals little about his past or his purpose as he sets about carrying out his bizarre and mysterious plan to acquire dead souls The government would tax the landowners based on how many serfs or souls the landowner owned determined by the census Censuses in this period were infrequent so landowners would often be paying taxes on serfs that were no longer living thus the dead souls It is these dead souls existing on paper only that Chichikov seeks to purchase from the landlords in the villages he visits he merely tells the prospective sellers that he has a use for them and that the sellers would be better off anyway since selling them would relieve the present owners of a needless tax burden

The story follows the exploits of Chichikov a middle aged gentleman of middling social class and means Chichikov arrives in a small town and turns on the charm to woo key local officials and landowners He reveals little about his past or his purpose as he sets about carrying out his bizarre and mysterious plan to acquire dead souls The government would tax the landowners based on how many serfs or souls the landowner owned determined by the census Censuses in this period were infrequent so landowners would often be paying taxes on serfs that were no longer living thus the dead souls It is these dead souls existing on paper only that Chichikov seeks to purchase from the landlords in the villages he visits he merely tells the prospective sellers that he has a use for them and that the sellers would be better off anyway since selling them would relieve the present owners of a needless tax burden