With an Introduction by Tony Briggs.
What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mort.
Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song.
These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand.
The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up Dead Souls .
There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly.
Russia in the 1840s.
With an Introduction by Tony Briggs