Gossip in town leads to Chichikov being viewed as a villain, as people grow suspicious of his motivations and think he is trying to kidnap the governor's daughter. Women express an interest in him, but quickly change their minds when he shows romantic interest in the governor's young daughter. Initially, he is celebrated as a kind of noble figure. Word about his mission spreads across town. In doing so he meets landowners Manilov, Sobakevich, Pliushkin, Korobochka, and Nozdriov, almost all of whom typify various bad qualities like greed and cruelty.
He sets out on a strange mission to acquire "dead souls"-lists of dead serfs-and goes from estate to estate speaking to different members of the landed gentry about the matter.
Everything that he says is carefully designed to put him in the good graces of the people he is speaking to. He meets several town officials and appears to be highly capable of charming people with conversation. The novel begins with Chichikov's arrival in a small town. Gogol claimed that the novel was modeled after poetic epics like Dante's Divine Comedy and Homer's Odyssey. First published in 1842, it details the quest of a bureaucrat named Chichikov to purchase the names of deceased serfs in a scheming effort to acquire land and wealth. Dead Souls is a novel by celebrated Russian author Nikolai Gogol.
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