In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."
Leonid Dyachkov
автор
Igor Gorbachyov
Чичиков
Oleg Basilashvili
Манилов
Klavdiya Fadeeva
Коробочка
Pavel Luspekayev
Ноздрев
Yuriy Tolubeev
Собакевич
Aleksandr Sokolov
Плюшкин
Konstantin Adashevsky
Governor
Elena Markina
Анна Григорьевна
In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."
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