The collegiate councilor Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, an ambitious, cunning and unscrupulous adventurer, goes from one place to another buying, stealing and swindling to obtain the property titles of the servants who appear in the previous censuses but who have recently died, the which were known as "dead souls." With these properties as collateral, he plans to get a loan to buy a property with "living souls."
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