In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."
Leonid Dyachkov
Igor Gorbachyov
Oleg Basilashvili
Klavdiya Fadeeva
Pavel Luspekayev
