Dead Soul; Imperial Minister

"Dead Souls: The Imperial Envoy" is a collection of masterpieces by the Russian satirist Gogol. "Dead Souls" is "an epoch-making masterpiece in the Russian literary world". The novel describes a speculative liar - Chichikov, a sixth-class civil servant, who came up with a scheme of buying and selling short and plundering in order to get rich. He purchased dead serfs who had not been canceled from the serf list at a low price. He used immigration as an excuse to apply for unclaimed wasteland from the country, and then mortgaged the acquired land and the list of dead serfs to the government to make a profit.