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Dead Soul; Imperial Minister (Russia) Written by Gogol; Translated by Jiang Xiaomocompleted "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 —Reads8.7Score—Shelves