The Old World Landowners

"The Old World Landowners" (Russian: Старосветские помещики, romanized: Starosvyetskiye pomeshchiki) is a short story written in 1835 by Nikolai Gogol. It is the first tale in the Mirgorod collection. A bittersweet and ironic reworking of the Baucis and Philemon legend from Ovid's Metamorphoses, it is a simple story that represents the mature Gogol and hints at his later works.

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