Russia · Arts / Literature. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
"The Overcoat", about a downtrodden clerk who sacrifices much to buy a new overcoat that is stolen the first time he wears it. "Dead Souls", concerns the rogue Chichikov who buys the names of dead serfs from landowners in order to mortgage them as property
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