![GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil'evich (1809-1852). Pokhozhdeniia Chichikova, ili Mertvyia Dushi [The Wanderings of Chichikov, or Dead Souls]. Moscow: V. Got'e [vol. 1] and Universitetskaia Tipografiia [vol. 2], 1855.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_17162_0036_001(gogol_nikolai_vasilevich_pokhozhdeniia_chichikova_ili_mertvyia_dushi_t104215).jpg?w=1)
![GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil'evich (1809-1852). Pokhozhdeniia Chichikova, ili Mertvyia Dushi [The Wanderings of Chichikov, or Dead Souls]. Moscow: V. Got'e [vol. 1] and Universitetskaia Tipografiia [vol. 2], 1855.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_17162_0036_002(gogol_nikolai_vasilevich_pokhozhdeniia_chichikova_ili_mertvyia_dushi_t104223).jpg?w=1)
![GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil'evich (1809-1852). Pokhozhdeniia Chichikova, ili Mertvyia Dushi [The Wanderings of Chichikov, or Dead Souls]. Moscow: V. Got'e [vol. 1] and Universitetskaia Tipografiia [vol. 2], 1855.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_17162_0036_000(gogol_nikolai_vasilevich_pokhozhdeniia_chichikova_ili_mertvyia_dushi_t104207).jpg?w=1)
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GOGOL, Nikolai Vasil'evich (1809-1852). Pokhozhdeniia Chichikova, ili Mertvyia Dushi [The Wanderings of Chichikov, or Dead Souls]. Moscow: V. Got'e [vol. 1] and Universitetskaia Tipografiia [vol. 2], 1855.
Princess Maria of Leuchtenberg's copy of the first complete edition, including the first edition of volume 2. Dead Souls was intended to have a structure similar to Dante, with part 1 analogous to the Inferno, part 2 to the Purgatorio, and part 3 to the Paradiso. Between 1842 and 1852 Gogol wrote and destroyed various drafts of part 2, sometimes during bouts of depression, but once on the instruction of a priest. His heirs found four chapters and the fragment of a fifth among his papers, which they published here for the first time as volume 2. The first volume had been published twice before in 1842 and 1846. Princess Maria was a granddaughter of Nicholas I of Russia. Kilgour 348.
Two volumes, octavo (235 x 130mm). Complete with the half-titles, and the leaf of facsimile manuscript in vol. 2 (occasional scattered spotting). Contemporary Russian maroon quarter morocco and maroon cloth sides, spines ruled in gilt, paneled in blind, and titled directly in gilt, glossy white endpapers (spines evenly faded to brown; joints starting at the heads). Provenance: Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841-1914; bookplate, manuscript shelfmarks 472 [cancelled] and I.21).
Princess Maria of Leuchtenberg's copy of the first complete edition, including the first edition of volume 2. Dead Souls was intended to have a structure similar to Dante, with part 1 analogous to the Inferno, part 2 to the Purgatorio, and part 3 to the Paradiso. Between 1842 and 1852 Gogol wrote and destroyed various drafts of part 2, sometimes during bouts of depression, but once on the instruction of a priest. His heirs found four chapters and the fragment of a fifth among his papers, which they published here for the first time as volume 2. The first volume had been published twice before in 1842 and 1846. Princess Maria was a granddaughter of Nicholas I of Russia. Kilgour 348.
Two volumes, octavo (235 x 130mm). Complete with the half-titles, and the leaf of facsimile manuscript in vol. 2 (occasional scattered spotting). Contemporary Russian maroon quarter morocco and maroon cloth sides, spines ruled in gilt, paneled in blind, and titled directly in gilt, glossy white endpapers (spines evenly faded to brown; joints starting at the heads). Provenance: Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841-1914; bookplate, manuscript shelfmarks 472 [cancelled] and I.21).
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