"The Overcoat" is one of the famous St. Petersburg stories of the most mysterious writer of Russian literature Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. It is part of the cycle St. Petersburg Stories. It was written in 1833-1834. This is a bizarre story about poor Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, who ordered a new overcoat for himself and impatiently waited for it to be sewn. The author, masterfully wielding words, shows all the indifference and ruthlessness of St. Petersburg to the poor official
