Петербургские повести.Мертвые души

"Nevsky Prospect", "The Nose", "The Portrait", "The Overcoat", "Notes of a Madman", "The Stroller" are united in a cycle by N.V. Gogol himself. The sharp, concise, expressive characters of the "Petersburg Tales" are revealed against the backdrop of strange, ghostly landscapes of Petersburg. Real events are intertwined with phantasmagoria, tragedy coexists with comedy and even grotesque.
The poem "Dead Souls" is a grand panorama of Russian society with all its peculiarities and paradoxes, in which "all of Russia" is reflected. This is an "amazing book, a bitter reproach to modern Russia" (A.I. Herzen).