Gogol. Dead Souls

It seems that Gogol laughed at the readers, offering them not the dead souls they were waiting for. But what if he could not tell everything as it was? That if he was forbidden to talk about sorcerers, subordinate to themselves the dead, about statesmen acting on the mind of the living, and that beliefs do not lie: there are light of God and the darkness of the devil, angels and righteous, who protect through prayer, and devils, and devils, and devils Sorcerers, witches and sinners who knock a person out of the way? Here, in Bessarabia, they revive the dead, and no one can resist this. But the young Nikolai Gogol, who had just published his first story “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka” and preparing to print her continued “Night before Christmas”, his fraternity in the person of Pushkin, Zhukovsky, young Lermontov and Pletnev and secret adviser to Count Benkendorf, the main detective The third branch of the Guro Imperial Chancellery, despite their enmity, together, fight the forces of darkness to protect their homeland