Nikolai Gogol

A Russian author.

The Overcoat

St. Petersburg: civil servant Akaky Akakyevich Bashmachkin loves copying documents. buys new coat and gains status but coat is stolen and he dies

The Government Inspector

Russian town: Khelstakov impersonates inspector but escapes before being discovered by postman

Dead Souls

Pavel Chickhkov buys serfs who have died since last census and mortgages them for land. landowners include Manilov, Sobakevich, Korobochka, and Plyushkin