Author: Nikolai Gogol / Year: 1809 - 1852 / Genre: Short Stories The story narrates the life and death of titular councillor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin
(Russian: Акакий Акакиевич Башмачкин), an impoverished government clerk and
copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Although Akaky is dedicated to his
job, he is little recognized in his department for his hard work. Instead, the
younger clerks tease him and attempt to distract him whenever they can.
His threadbare overcoat is often the butt of their jokes.
Akaky decides it is necessary to have the coat repaired, so he takes it to
his tailor, Petrovich, who declares the coat irreparable, telling Akaky he must buy a new overcoat.
