Petersburg Tales (Nevsky Prospekt, The Overcoat, The Nose, The Carriage)

4 hrs. 22 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Nikolai Gogol

Narrator Alexander Klyukvin

Description

A collection of stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol describes multifaceted and so changeable Saint Petersburg. Having personally walked in the shoes of a minor official and feeling what “service to the sovereign” really means, Nikolai Vasilievich depicts the manners of the “important people” of that time with surprising accuracy. And as if reflecting the soul of Petersburg, he writes about “little people”—about crippled human destinies.

It’s no accident that the tale “Nevsky Prospect” is first in this collection: it contrasts the outward beauty and pomp of the northern capital with the inner emptiness of its inhabitants.