Dead Souls 1969

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..."

Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character 1953

Alyosha Ptitsyn, a third-grader decides that he wants to improve his personality and immediately starts to act.

Весна в Москве 1953