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: Because censuses were conducted years apart, landowners kept paying taxes on serfs who had died in the interim.

: The landowners get a tax break, and Chichikov plans to take his massive list of paper serfs to a bank, mortgage them as if they are living property, and buy himself a real estate empire. 🎭 A Gallery of Grotesques Dead Souls

The premise of the novel hinges on a loophole in the Imperial Russian tax and legal system: : Because censuses were conducted years apart, landowners

What if you could buy people who didn't exist to make yourself a millionaire? That is the exact premise of Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 masterpiece, Dead Souls . Part scam artist's travelogue, part blistering social satire, it remains one of the most bizarre and brilliant stories in world literature. 🧮 The Absurdity of the Scam That is the exact premise of Nikolai Gogol’s

: A giant, bear-like man who is ruthlessly efficient and drives a hard bargain for his deceased property.