Dead Souls Apr 2026

: Because censuses were conducted years apart, landowners kept paying taxes on serfs who had died in the interim.

: 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

: Enter our protagonist, Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov . He travels the countryside offering to "buy" these dead souls on paper. : Because censuses were conducted years apart, landowners

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