Dead Souls a Fiction Story by Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls a Fiction Story by Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

338 pages paperback 1842

350 editions

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In Gogol's time, a Russian landowner could buy and sell serfs, or "souls," like any other property. The serfs were counted, for the purpose of tax assessment, every ten years. Thus, a landowner still had to pay taxes on the value of serfs who had ...

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