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what exactly it is, but the general impression is invariably strong, as of something very lively and harmonic. Ignoring the established formats, Saltykov was driven by two things: current stream of new ideas and those lofty ideals he’s been aspiring to." Saltykov, according to
Krivenko, occasionally repeated himself, but never denied this, explaining it by the need of always being engaged with 'hot' issues – "things which in the course of decades were in their own right repeating themselves with such damning monotony". "There are not many writers in Rus whose very name would give that much to one's mind and heart, and who'd leave such a vast literary heritage, rich and diverse both in essence and in form, written in a very special language which even in his lifetime became known as 'saltykovian'," wrote Krivenko in 1895. "Saltykov's gift was no lesser than that of Gogol, neither in originality nor in itspower," the biographer reckoned.
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desperate attempts to break free from what he called his 'Vyatka captivity', but after each of his requests he received the standard reply: "would be premature." He became more and more aware of the possibility that he'd have to spend the rest of his life there. "The very thought of that is so repellent that it makes by hair bristle," he complained in a letter to his brother. It helped that the local elite treated
Saltykov with great warmth and sympathy; he was made a welcome guest in many respectable houses, including that of vice-governor Boltin whose daughter Elizaveta Apollonovna later became Saltykov's wife.
972:(История одного города) came out, a grotesque, politically risky novel relating the tragicomic history of the fictitious Foolsville, a vague caricature upon the Russian Empire, with its sequence of monstrous rulers, tormenting their hapless vassals. The book was a satire on the whole institution of Russian statehood and the way of life itself, plagued by routine mismanagement, needless oppression, pointless tyranny and sufferers’ apathy. The novel ended with the deadly "it" sweeping the whole thing away, "making the history stop" which was construed by many as a call for radical political change. A series called
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government in defeating serfdom apologist still clinging to their rights." Huge literary success has never made him think of retiring from work in the government. Partly reasons for his return to the state service were practical. In 1856 Saltykov married
Elizaveta Boltina, daughter of a Vyatka vice-governor and found, on the one hand, his mother's financial support curtailed, on the other, his own needs rose sharply. Up until 1858 Saltykov continued working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Then after making a report on the condition of the Russian
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author. He settled in a small house, often visited people and received guests. Saltykov's primary goal was to teach local minor officials elementary grammar and he spent many late evenings proof-reading and re-writing their incongruous reports. In 1862 Saltykov was transferred to Tver where he often
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Shchedrin's laughter to be the essential part of Russian life. "Shchedrin, he's still laughing, people were saying, by way of reproach... Thankfully, yes, no matter how hard it was for him to do this, in the most morbid times of our recent history this laughter was heard… One
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Contrary to left radicals' attempt to draw Saltykov closer to their camp, "undermining the Empire's foundations" was not his aim at all and on his return to Saint Petersburg he was soon promoted to administrative posts of considerable importance. His belief was that "all honest men should help the
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was quick to reassure him. "The writer who is most hated, is most loved, too. You'd have known none of this, had you remained M.E.Saltykov, a mere hereditary Russian aristocrat. But you are Saltykov-Schedrin, a writer who happened to draw a distinctive line in our literature: that's why you are
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Saltykov-Shchedrin has been lavishly praised by Soviet critics as "the true revolutionary", but his mindset (as far as they were concerned) was not without a "fault", for he, according to Goryachkina, "failed to recognize the historically progressive role of capitalism and never understood the
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came out, their general idea being that the reforms have failed and Russia remained the same country of absolute monarchy where peasant had no rights. "The bars have fallen but Russia's heart gave not a single twitch. Serfdom has been abolished, but landlords rejoiced," he wrote.
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1081:(Круглый год), both books attacking the very roots of Russian capitalism. "Fatherland is a pie - that's the idea those narrow, obnoxious minds follow," he wrote. The latter collection remained unfinished due to fierceness of censorship in the wake of the assassination of
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upon the society, then, after its abolition, - corruption, bureaucratic inefficiency, opportunistic tendencies in intelligentsia, greed and amorality of those at power, but also - apathy, meekness and social immobility of the common people of Russia. His satirical cycle
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word "saltyk" meaning "one's own way/taste"), the son of Ignaty Mikhailovich Morozov and a great-grandson of the founder of the dynasty Ivan Semyonovich Moroz who lived during the 14–15th centuries. The Saltykov family also shared the
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family of Yevgraf Vasilievich Saltykov (1776–1851) and Olga Mikhaylovna Saltykova (née Zabelina; 1801–74). His father belonged to an ancient Saltykov noble house that originated as one of the branches of the Morozov
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children lived in the main house and were rarely allowed to go out, knowing their "animals and birds only as boiled and fried." Characteristically, there were few descriptions of nature in the author's works.
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Ministry. By this time many of the stories and essays that would be known as
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magazine) numerous sketches and short stories, some later included into
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Velvet Book. Chapter 15, 142-143: Morozov and Saltykov families
1581:, Повесть о том, как один мужик двух генералов прокормил, 1869)
1043:. On January 2, 1881, Saltykov wrote to the lawyer and author
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was closed. In the autumn Nekrasov approached the publisher
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of the 19th century. He spent most of his life working as a
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modern man', often resorting to schemes and caricatures.
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19th-century short story writers from the Russian Empire
1129:(Недоконченные беседы, 1886) followed, but by this time
1077:(Убежище Монрепо, 1879) and the collection of sketches
2351:, Works in 20 Volumes, vol. 7, Moscow, p. 75
1186:(Сказки для детей изрядного возраста, better known as
1908:'s electronic publications, 1950, p. 479 (in Russian)
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2075:"Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. His Life and Writings"
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1705:The History of a Town, or, The Chronicle of Foolov
1571:, Сказки для детей изрядного возраста, 1869–1886)
797:(1863–1864), examining “new tendencies in Russian
543:Saltykov's house in Vyatka (now a museum in Kirov)
226:[mʲɪxɐˈiljɪvˈɡrafəvʲɪtɕsəltɨˈkofɕːɪˈdrʲin]
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2425:"The Golovlyov's Family. Its Genre Peculiarities"
1804:The Pompadours: A Satire on the Art of Government
1198:(Пошехонская старина), published in 1887–1889 in
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1111:In 1883, now critically ill, Saltykov published
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2015:Prozorov, V.V. (1990), Nikolayev, P.A. (ed.),
1611:A Family of Noblemen (The Gentlemen Golovliov)
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2077:. Florenty Pavlenkov’s Biographical Library
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298:major figure of Russian literary Realism
30:For the Belarusian Olympic athlete, see
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27:Russian author and satirist (1826–1889)
2280:. Gale Encyclopedia of Russian History
2023:, vol. 2, Moscow: Prosveshcheniye
1962:. Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya Publishers
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2609:The Village Priest and Other Stories
1544:, Помпадуры и Помпадурши, 1863–1874)
954:on May 28, 1884. In 1869 Saltykov's
747:(1857–1863) which demonstrated what
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2543:Works by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
2620:Tchinovnicks (Provincial Sketches)
1749:Foreign Languages Publishing House
1579:The How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials
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2391:The Golovlyov Family Introduction
2298:Saltykov-Shchedrin, M.E. (1985).
1921:Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1975)
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1744:Tales from M. Saltykov-Shchedrin
1542:Messieurs et Mesdames Pompadours
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2498:A History of Russian Literature
1868:. Volume 2, p. 551 (in Russian)
920:Mikhail Saltykov's portrait by
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237:28 April] 1889), born
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2777:People from Taldomsky District
2447:Karl Marx and World Literature
1820:, London : W. Scott, 1895
1627:, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1934.
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2782:People from Kalyazinsky Uyezd
2450:. Verso Books. 3 April 2014.
1866:Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary
1559:(Смерть Пазухина, 1857, play)
1538:Pompadours and Pompadouresses
1475:(История одного города, 1870)
974:Pompadours and Pompadouresses
239:Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov
2827:Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum alumni
2518:Kovalevskaya, Sofia (1889).
2404:"Karl Marx. Brief Biography"
2278:"Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin"
1925:Khudozhestvennaya Literatura
1880:, Genealogia.ru (in Russian)
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902:, the Chief of Staff of the
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2247:. Epoch magazine /az.lib.ru
2154:. rvb.ru /Thw Works. Vol.14
2129:М.S. М.Е.Saltykov-Shchedrin
1958:Konstantin Tyunkin (1989).
1941:Moscow Necropolis. Volume 1
1315:The Gentlemen from Tashkent
1301:importance of the emerging
1125:(Пёстрые письма, 1884) and
807:. First Saltykov ridiculed
637:Saltykov-Shchedrin in 1850s
483:Saint Petersburg University
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288:(1870), also translated as
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2520:"М.Е.Saltykov (Shchedrin)"
2345:Saltykov-Shchedrin, М.Е.,
2243:Dostoyevsky, F.М. (1864).
1829:, Oneworld Classics, 2011.
1530:, Губернские очерки, 1856)
1513:Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
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960:Letters About the Province
904:Special Corps of Gendarmes
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32:Mikhail Saltykov (athlete)
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2300:"Pompadury i pompadurshi"
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988:caused much controversy.
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597:A Brief History of Russia
583:. On 26 April 1848, Tsar
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2323:Korolenko, V.G. (1889).
2017:"М.Е.Saltykov-Shchedrin"
1852:, 1890–1907 (in Russian)
1639:The New American Library
1412:Old Times in Poshekhonye
1196:Old Years in Poshekhonye
833:in Russian nihilism" by
773:Mikhail Saltykov c. 1870
515:... and, in particular,
464:Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya
378:Old Years in Poshekhonye
2073:Krivenko, S.N. (1895).
1798:, T. Fisher Unwin, 1918
1135:The Well-Meant Speeches
1119:The Poshekhonye Stories
1049:The Well-Meant Speeches
1037:The Well-Meant Speeches
872:Being dependent on his
269:Otechestvenniye Zapiski
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161:The History of a Town
2686:The Golovlyov Family
2593:The Golovlyov Family
2522:. Stockholms Dagblad
2427:. www.bestreferat.ru
2150:Saltykov-Shchedrin.
1960:"Saltykov-Shchedrin"
1818:The Humour of Russia
1690:, Willem A. Meeuws,
1662:The Golovlyov Family
1645:The Golovlyov Family
1621:The Golovlyov Family
1615:Boni & Liveright
1601:The Gollovlev Family
1595:The Golovlyov Family
1588:English translations
1518:Stories and sketches
1486:The Golovlyov Family
1408:The Golovlyov Family
1360:The Golovlyov Family
1257:The Golovlyov Family
1208:Nikolai Mikhailovsky
1192:Small Things in Life
1060:A Family of Noblemen
1055:The Golovlyov Family
757:Moskovskye Vedomosty
553:A Complicated Affair
529:Mikhail Petrashevsky
382:The Golovlyov Family
279:The Golovlyov Family
167:The Golovlyov Family
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2627:Grave of M.Saltykov
2406:. www.webmechta.com
2302:. Pravda Publishers
2201:"Shadows. Foreword"
1732:Fables by Shchedrin
1524:Provincial Sketches
1479:Ubezhishche Monrepo
1143:Well-Meant Speeches
826:What Is to Be Done?
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672:started publishing
648:Provincial Sketches
628:Provincial Sketches
565:Nikolai Dobrolyubov
525:Petrashevsky circle
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343:Sołtyk coat of arms
335:Old Church Slavonic
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2586:Avrahm Yarmolinsky
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2223:"Satires in Prose"
1666:The Overlook Press
1625:Everyman's Library
1605:Jarrold & Sons
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2325:"About Shchedrin"
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1173:Russkye Vedomosti
1147:Letters to Auntie
1094:Letters to Auntie
996:In 1873 came out
982:History of a Town
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392:Education
367:Yaroslavl
304:Biography
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196:Signature
186:Relatives
137:1847—1889
76:Spas-Ugol
2697:Sketches
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294:fiction
146:Realism
129:Russian
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410:Gospel
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172:Fables
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1569:Tales
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