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Nikolai Gogol
Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
Plyushkin
thumb|Plyushkin, drawing by Alexander Agin (1846-1847)
Stepan Plyushkin () is a fictional character in Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls. He is a landowner who obsessively collects and saves everything he finds, to the point that when he wants to celebrate a deal with the protagonist Chichikov, he orders one of his serfs to find a cake that a visitor brought several years ago, scrape off the mold, and bring it to them. At the same time, his estate is incredibly inefficient; the cut wheat rots on the ground and any potential income is lost.
Vasyl Panasovych Gogol-Yanovsky
Ukrainian noble and writer