Eventually most landowners including Sobakevich and Korobochka, begin to think ill of this same man who arrives in a troika flanked by the valet, Petrushka, and the coachman, Selifan, at the house of Maniloff with the proposition to buy up the names of deceased serfs.
Townspeople speculate that its protagonist is the legendary Captain Kopeykin in disguise, and Nozdreff offers to play cards for the title objects, but is arrested for a drunken assault before he can interfere with the scheme at the center of this work. Eventually most landowners including Sobakevich and Korobochka, begin to think ill of this same man who arrives in a troika flanked by the valet, Petrushka, and the coachman, Selifan, at the house of Maniloff with the proposition to buy up the names of deceased serfs. FTP identify this 1842 novel about the swindler Pavel Chichikov, a work by Nikolai Gogol.
Townspeople speculate that its protagonist is the legendary Captain Kopeykin in disguise, and Nozdreff offers to play cards for the title objects, but is arrested for a drunken assault before he can interfere with the scheme at the center of this work.
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