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 , Pavel Luspekayev , Yuriy Tolubeev , Aleksandr Sokolov , Konstantin Adashevsky , Elena Markina , Svetlana Karpinskaya , Nikolai Boyarsky
Leningrad Television