A coppiest, a tailor, and an official each demonstrate the cracks in Tsarist Russian society.

Nikolai Gogol, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.

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by William Wordsworth in the Special Features portion for this week's episode.

An hour something completely different.

Today's story is from Ukrainian-born author Nikolai Gogol and it exposes the various weaknesses

of life in Tsarist Russia. A Kaki Akakiavitch is a simple poor man who is doing everything

as he should and following all the rules. Watch out his social status ebbs and flows as the people

in his life help him or don't. And now the Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol.

In the department of, but it is better not to name the department,

there's nothing more irritable than all kinds of departments, regiments,

courts of justice, and in a word every branch of public service.

Each separate man nowadays thinks all society insulted in his person.

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