: Enter our protagonist, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov . He travels the countryside offering to "buy" these dead souls on paper.
: The landowners get a tax break, and Chichikov plans to take his massive list of paper serfs to a bank, mortgage them as if they are living property, and buy himself a real estate empire. 🎭 A Gallery of Grotesques Dead Souls
The premise of the novel hinges on a loophole in the Imperial Russian tax and legal system: : Enter our protagonist, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov
: A hoarder so consumed by miserliness that his estate is crumbling and his own family is starving. 🔥 Why You Should Read It Today Dead Souls - ...on the B.L. 🎭 A Gallery of Grotesques The premise of
: A paranoid, superstitious widow who is terrified of being cheated on the price of her dead serfs.