Николай Гоголь Мертвые души (Роман)

Cult writer Nikolai Gogol did not accidentally designate the genre of "Dead Souls" as a poem. The plot is quite simple: the protagonist Pavel Chichikov travels through the provincial town of N and buys peasants who have already died, but according to the documents are still listed as alive. The purpose of fraud is clear - by all means to improve their status.
But the main thing in "Dead Souls" is not the plot, but a picture of Russian life and its typical representatives. Here we have the sensitive dreamer Manilov, and pathological miser Plushkin, and booze-loving coachman Selifan, and the Rus-Troika, which carries them all to who knows where...
Gogol planned Dead Souls in three volumes, but only managed to finish one. The second part is known only from drafts, and the third - from separate information about the author's idea.