“….I asked around attentively about the state of the region. Were there any diseases in their province, rampant agues, any kind of deadly fevers, smallpox and the like…”
(Illiustratsiia, St. Petersburg, 1846; reprinted in A. A. Agin (artist) and E. E. Bernadskii (engraver), 100 Drawings for Gogol’s Dead Souls, 1892)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 