Dead Souls
12 hrs. 10 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Nikolai Gogol
Author
Nikolai Gogol
Narrator
Yury Lazarev
Narrator
Yury Lazarev
Description
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol is the famous Russian writer whose works are part of the golden fund of Russian literature and remain an unchanged component of school literature programs. His novels, novellas, and plays have an enormous number of stage productions and film adaptations.
One of his strongest works is the book “Dead Souls.” Only the first volume was published: the second, almost finished, was destroyed by the author. The plot of the poem, as Gogol himself designated the genre of the book, is the adventures of a adventurer who, in the era of serfdom, buys “on paper” peasants from landowners at bargain prices—peasants who are actually dead, but until the next census are still considered alive. Under these “census souls,” the clever swindler plans to obtain land from the state. The writer presents on a grand scale the characters and phenomena that unfortunately are still relevant in modern Russia.
One of his strongest works is the book “Dead Souls.” Only the first volume was published: the second, almost finished, was destroyed by the author. The plot of the poem, as Gogol himself designated the genre of the book, is the adventures of a adventurer who, in the era of serfdom, buys “on paper” peasants from landowners at bargain prices—peasants who are actually dead, but until the next census are still considered alive. Under these “census souls,” the clever swindler plans to obtain land from the state. The writer presents on a grand scale the characters and phenomena that unfortunately are still relevant in modern Russia.
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