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The concept of DEAD PEASANTS comes from Gogol's novel DEAD SOULS. In that book a 19th century entrepreneur of limited means travels to the homes of Russian landowners purchasing peasants. He does not want live peasants, however, he wants DEAD peasants. Peasants died every day in Russia but their deaths were only recorded on one day a year by the State. This made Tchitchikov a great baron in possession of more than a thousand peasants, as far as the State was concerned -- at least till the end of the year when their deaths would enter into the State record. He was able to buy the "dead" peasants at a very low price because the dead were worthless to their previous master and no one could imagine a use for the dead. But Tcitchikov could: the government award land grants for free based upon the number of peasants the applicant had. Tcitchikov used the names of his peasants as a legal list that allowed him to receive free land and become a land baron. I assume that is where the idea of Dead Peasant insurance came from. The book title translated as DEAD SOULS is probably intended as a commentary on Tcitchikov more than on the peasants whose names he purchased. At any event I thought some readers might be interested to know where that awful expression, dead peasants, used in the film, probably came from.

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7.10.2009 - com2013@ - age: 13-17

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