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Dead Souls
Dead Souls (, "Mjórtvyje dúshi") is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov (Russian: Павел Иванович Чичиков) and the people whom he encounters. These people are typical of the Russian middle-class of the time. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse"
Suppl. Script. Franciscani ordinis," Rome, 1806, 571) he was a native of Flanders and belonged to the Franciscan ecclesiastical province of Cologne. Yet his name refers to the Bavarian city of Passau.
Work.
His book bears the German language title (not Dutch language, as one might expect from a Fleming) "Die vierundzwanzig alten oder der guldin Tron der minnenden seelen"; "The 24 elders or the golden throne of loving souls." He introduces the twenty-four ancients of Apocalypse