Concluding with the image of a rampant troika, FTP, name this novel by Nikolai Gogol.
After attending a ball, one character in this work is subject to rumors that he is planning to elope with the governor's daughter, and the revelation that the protagonist is not missing any arms or legs discredits the theory that he is Captain Kopeykin.  One bearlike character owns furniture which resembles himself and eats a massive portion of sturgeon, and another character outrages the protagonist by cheating at checkers before he is arrested for beating Maximov while drunk.  In addition to Sobakevitch and Nozdryov, the protagonist exchanges an unending stream of polite conversation with Manilov before purchasing the titular entities to be mortgaged.  Concluding with the image of a rampant troika, FTP, name this novel by Nikolai Gogol.
After attending a ball, one character in this work is subject to rumors that he is planning to elope with the governor's daughter, and the revelation that the protagonist is not missing any arms or legs discredits the theory that he is Captain Kopeykin.  
Dead Souls or Myortvye Dushi