The number of serfs at landowners

The number of serfs among landowners was very different, which is also evident in the literature. Ivan Fyodorovich Gogolevsky Shponka owned 18 - 24 souls, but his estate flourished. The impoverished Andrew Dubrovsky has 70 souls, Gogol's Box has 80, but the Plyushkin miser has 1000! Arbenin in Lermontov’s Masquerade has 3,000 souls, as many as Konstantin Levin in Anna Karenina. Arina Petrovna (The Lord Golovleva Saltykov-Shchedrin) - 4000! Grandfather Yezersky ("The pedigree of my hero," Pushkin) "had twelve thousand souls." And he himself (Yezersky) “lived as a salary / and served as a registrar” - such is the sharp decline of a noble family for some two generations. 
https://www.facebook.com/BielikMichael/posts/476276753148605