Petersburg Tales

“Petersburg Tales” is Petersburg of small officials, townspeople, soldiers, and craftsmen. With expertise and humor, Gogol paints a world of petty interests, bribery, and bureaucratic swamps, as well as the outskirts of Petersburg—“where all is silence and discharge.”

And even in the 21st century, it’s still funny and sad to read these tales: they remind you of something a little too sharply…?