In the frozen streets of nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, a humble government clerk devotes his modest savings to a new overcoat — an ordinary purchase that becomes an extraordinary turning point. What begins as a quietly humorous tale transforms into a haunting exploration of poverty, dignity, ambition, and loss.
Blending satire, compassion, and the uncanny, Nikolai Gogol’s classic inspired generations of writers, including Dostoevsky, and remains one of the most influential short works in Russian literature.
