The story "The Overcoat" by Gogol is the most famous work about the "little man". This is a touching and truthful story about a petty official Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin, who was engaged in minor matters and often was therefore the object of ridicule. After reading the story, the discerning reader will certainly agree with Dostoevsky that "we all left Gogol's Overcoat."