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A noted historian on Imperial Russia and the Romanov Dynasty

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the quest for fame

Published: 10/21/1969

Dead Souls AUTH-12866139 illuminated with lush descriptions ofA stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their dead souls, the serfs who have died in their service and for whom they must continue to pay taxes until the next census. The landowner receives a payment and a relief of his tax burden, and the stranger receives what? Gogol's comic masterpiece offers the answer in a vast and satirical painting of the Russian panorama, as it traces