# Khlobuev — Dead Souls character guide

> Khlobuev in Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Poor Khlobuev

**First appearance:** 0015-part-ii-ii

## Snapshot

A landowner so thoroughly ruined that he is reduced to begging Chichikov to take his estate off his hands.

## Who they are

Khlobuev has spent his way through his fortune and now sits in the wreckage, trying to sell what remains before it is taken from him. His desperation makes him easy prey for a man like Chichikov, who can smell a bargain the way others smell weather. He matters because he shows the reader what lies at the end of the road so many of these landowners are traveling — and what Chichikov's victims look like when the charm wears off.

## Relationships

### [Chichikov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dead_souls_se/characters/chichikov)

_social_

Chichikov interacts with the debt-ridden, desperate Khlobuev, seeing him as a potential mark for his schemes.

### [Semen Semenovitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dead_souls_se/characters/semen_semenovitch)

_social_

Khlobuev borrows money from the wealthy, indifferent Semen Semenovitch, deepening his financial ruin.

### [Murazov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dead_souls_se/characters/murazov)

_psychological_

Murazov tries to guide the desperate Khlobuev toward moral and financial redemption, with mixed results.

### [Chichikov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dead_souls_se/characters/chichikov)

_social_

Chichikov interacts with the debt-ridden, desperate Khlobuev, seeing him as a potential mark for his schemes.

### [Chichikov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dead_souls_se/characters/chichikov)

_social_

Chichikov interacts with the debt-ridden, desperate Khlobuev, seeing him as a potential mark for his schemes.

### [Murazov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dead_souls_se/characters/murazov)

_psychological_

Murazov tries to guide the desperate Khlobuev toward moral and financial redemption, with mixed results.

### [Semen Semenovitch](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dead_souls_se/characters/semen_semenovitch)

_social_

Khlobuev borrows money from the wealthy, indifferent Semen Semenovitch, deepening his financial ruin.

## In the story

### [Chapter III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dead_souls_se/chapters/part-ii-iii)

Mentioned as the landowner whose estate Chichikov plans to purchase.

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