A neural network finished writing Nikolai Gogol’s ‘Dead Souls’. What was the result? Natalya Kochetkova Oct 15 2026 Culture

https://www.gw2ru.com/arts/258207-a-neural-network-finished-writing-nikolai-gogols-dead-souls-what-was-the-result A book titled ‘Dead Souls: Volume Two – Rebirth’, written by GigaChat, has been published in Russian. The ‘GigaChat’ neural network created 350 pages of text and 21 illustrations in the style of artist Alexander Agin, the artist who illustrated the first edition of Nikolai Gogol’s book. The draft manuscripts of Gogol’s second volume of ‘Dead Souls’ were deliberately not used, but it appears they did not abandon the overall concept of guiding the protagonist toward the path of virtue.