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Russian and Eastern European humor

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Dead SoulsNikolai Vasilevich Gogol · 1842A Russian novel first published in 1842, in which the schemer Chichikov travels across Russia buying up serfs who have died but are still on the tax rolls, intending to mortgage them for profit. Only part of the intended second part survives.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية