Saltykov (Shchedrin)

This writer is known to everyone, his works have long been part of the school curriculum, however, his biography is known to few. His real name is Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov and the pseudonym "N. Shchedrin" have firmly merged into the... surname "Saltykov-Shchedrin," which he never used. During Soviet times, he was considered a revolutionary, a denouncer of the "maladies of autocracy," although he was a supporter of reforms and a tsarist official who rose to the position of vice-governor. The book by literary historian Sergey Dmitrenko describes the creative and personal life of Saltykov (Shchedrin) with an unprecedented objectivity and completeness - a man of extraordinary talent and immense diligence, who had many friends and even more enemies, sincerely loved his country and believed in its future.

Author: Сергей Дмитренко

Printhouse: Molodaia gvardiia

Series: The Lives of Remarkable People

Age restrictions: 16+

Year of publication: 2022

ISBN: 9785235045002

Number of pages: 505

Size: 207x137x27 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 564 g

ID: 1713995

This writer is known to everyone, his works have long been part of the school curriculum, however, his biography is known to few. His real name is Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov and the pseudonym "N. Shchedrin" have firmly merged into the surname "Saltykov-Shchedrin," which he never used. During Soviet times, he was considered a revolutionary, a denouncer of the "maladies of autocracy," although he was a supporter of reforms and a tsarist official who rose to the position of vice-governor. The book by literary historian Sergey Dmitrenko describes the creative and personal life of Saltykov (Shchedrin) with an unprecedented objectivity and completeness - a man of extraordinary talent and immense diligence, who had many friends and even more enemies, sincerely loved his country and believed in its future.

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