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: A paranoid, superstitious widow who is terrified of being cheated on the price of her dead serfs.

: 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

As Chichikov travels from estate to estate, Gogol introduces us to a hilarious and terrifying lineup of Russian landowners. They are not flat stereotypes, but neurotically individual caricatures: : A paranoid, superstitious widow who is terrified

The premise of the novel hinges on a loophole in the Imperial Russian tax and legal system: : A paranoid