![]() Dead Souls is a critique and satire of middle class life in Imperial Russia. ![]() By purchasing the deed to these "property," Tchitchikov is able to improve his social standing at a discount as these individuals were still accounted for in property registers postmortem and the rights to ownership for deceased serfs was less than that of the living. In this film, main character Tchitchikov travels through the countryside buying dead souls, or serfs who had deceased. This is a small-screen rendering of Gogol's epic poem critiquing the class system in 19th-century Russia by the same name. George Gibian was Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. ![]() The author of Dead Souls and The Overcoat, he was one of Russia’s greatest writers. The first cinematic interpretation of this work was directed by Pyotr Chardynin in 1909. Nikolai Gogol (18091852) was a novelist and political satirist. This story was also adapted as an opera in the 1980s as an American-Soviet production that first opened in Boston. The 1984 miniseries was based on the 1960 film adaptation directed by Leonid Trauberg, which was inspired the Moscow Art Theater script. ![]() In 1930, author Mikhail Bulgakov was commissioned to write the first adaptation of this novel for the Soviet stage at the Moscow Art Theater. This story has been shared in many different interpretations. Dead Souls ( Russian: Мёртвые души, romanized: Myortvye dushi) is a 1984 Soviet television miniseries directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on Nikolai Gogol's epic poem of the same name. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Buy Study Guide Dead Souls Character List Chichikov Chichikov is the protagonist of the novel. ![]()
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