Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (moboreader .txt) 📕

the Russian translation made direct from the Hebrew. ↩

An urn for brewing honey tea. ↩

An urn for brewing ordinary tea. ↩

A German dramatist (1761⁠–⁠1819) who also filled sundry posts in the service of the Russian Government. ↩

Priest’s wife. ↩

In this case the term General refers to a civil grade equivalent to the military rank of the same title. ↩

An annual tax upon peasants, payment of which secured to the payer the right of removal. ↩

Cabbage soup. ↩

Three horses harnessed abreast. ↩

A member of the gentry class. ↩

Pieces equal in value to twenty-five kopecks (a quarter of a rouble). ↩

A Russian general who, in 1812, stoutly opposed Napoleon at the battle of Borodino. ↩

The late eighteenth century. ↩

Forty Russian pounds. ↩

To serve as blotting-paper. ↩

A liquor distilled from fermented bread crusts or sour fruit. ↩

That is to say, a distinctively Russian name. ↩

A jeering appellation which owes its origin to the fact that certain Russians cherish a prejudice against the initial character of the word⁠—namely, the Greek θ, or th. ↩

The great Russian general who, after winning fame in the Seven Years’ War, met with disaster when attempting to assist the Austrians against the French in 1799. ↩

A kind of large gnat. ↩

A copper coin worth five kopecks. ↩

A Russian general who fought against Napoleon, and was mortally wounded at Borodino. ↩

Literally, “nursemaid.” ↩

Village factor or usurer. ↩

Subordinate government officials. ↩

Nevertheless Chichikov would appear to have erred, since most people would make the sum amount to twenty-three roubles, forty kopecks. If so, Chichikov cheated himself of one rouble, fifty-six kopecks. ↩

The names Kariakin and Volokita might, perhaps, be translated as “Gallant” and “Loafer.” ↩

Tradesman or citizen. ↩

The game of knucklebones. ↩

A sort of low, four-wheeled carriage. ↩

The system by which, in annual rotation, two-thirds of a given area are cultivated, while the remaining third is left fallow. ↩

Public Prosecutor. ↩

To reproduce this story with a raciness worthy of the Russian original is practically impossible. The translator has not attempted the task. ↩

One of the mistresses of Louis XIV of France. In 1680 she wrote a book called Réflexions sur la Miséricorde de Dieu, par une Dame Pénitente. ↩

Four-wheeled open carriage. ↩

Silver five kopeck piece. ↩

A silver quarter rouble. ↩

In the days of serfdom, the rate of forced labour⁠—so many hours or so many days per week⁠—which the serf had to perform for his proprietor. ↩

At this point there is a long hiatus in the original. ↩

The Elder. ↩

The Younger. ↩

Secondary School. ↩

The desiatin = 2.86 English acres. ↩

“One more makes five.” ↩

Dried spinal marrow of the sturgeon. ↩

Long, belted Tartar blouses. ↩

Village commune. ↩

Landowner. ↩

Here from the original two pages are missing. ↩

Here, in the original, a word is missing. ↩

At this point there occurs a long hiatus. ↩

Here there occurs a hiatus in the original. ↩

Dissenters or Old Believers: i.e. members of the sect which refused to accept the revised version of the Church Service Books promulgated by the Patriarch Nikon in 1665. ↩

Fiscal districts. ↩

At this point a long hiatus occurs in the original. ↩

Here the manuscript of the original comes abruptly to an end. ↩

Colophon

Dead Souls
was published in 1842 by
Nikolai Gogol.
It was translated from Russian in 1915 by
D. J. Hogarth.

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and is based on a transcription produced in 1997 by
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The cover page is adapted from
The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia,
a painting completed in 1914 by
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