Died 1889-04-28.
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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, born Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov and known during his lifetime by the pen name Nikolai Shchedrin, was a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century. He spent most of his life working as a civil servant in various capacities. After the death of poet Nikolay Nekrasov, he acted as editor of a Russian literary magazine Otechestvenniye Zapiski until…
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culture · Russian author and satirist (1826–1889) · writer · journalist · novelist · translator · playwright · prose writer · short story writer · satirist · also Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, Nikolai Shchedrin, Shchedrin, Mikhail Saltykov, Saltykov-Shchedrin
Born 15 January 1826 · Died 28 April 1889 · Q211785
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I took a look at the family, the state, the property and found out that none of such things exist. And that those very principles for the sake of which freedoms have been granted, were not respected as principles any more, even by those who seemed to hold them.
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1889· 1 entry
1884· 1 entry
“s Signs of the Times and Letters About the Province 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.”
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1883· 1 entry
Now critically ill, Saltykov published Modern Idyll (Современная идиллия), the novel he started in 1877–1878, targeting those of intelligentsia who were eager to prove their loyalty to the authorities
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1882· 2 entries
As he, feeling depressed by the critical response to his work, made rather a pessimistic assessment of his life in literature, Ivan Turgenev was quick to reassure him
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Letters to Auntie (Письма к тётеньке), written in the atmosphere of tough censorship came out, a satire on the society in general and its cultural elite in particular (the 'auntie' in question)
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1881· 2 entries
Saltykov wrote to the lawyer and author Yevgeny Utin: "I took a look at the family, the state, the property and found out that none of such things exist
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“I took a look at the family, the state, the property and found out that none of such things exist. And that those very principles for the sake of which freedoms have been granted, were not respected as principles any more, even by those who seemed to hold them.”
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1880· 1 entry
Saltykov-Shchedrin extracted all of them to begin a separate book which evolved into his most famous novel, showing the stagnation of the land-based dvoryanstvo
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1873· 1 entry
Came out The Tashkenters Clique (Господа Ташкентцы ;Tashkent’ers was a generic term invented by Shchedrin for administrators sent to tame riots in the remote regions of the Russian Empire), a snipe at right-wingers who a
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1870· 1 entry
The History of a Town (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
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1869· 1 entry
Saltykov's Signs of the Times and Letters About the Province 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
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1868· 1 entry
Saltykov retired: thus the career of "one of the strangest officials in Russian history" ended
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1864· 1 entry
Pisarev responded by "Flowers of Innocent Humor" article published by Russkoye Slovo implying that Saltykov was cultivating "laughter for good digestion's sake"
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1862· 2 entries
Saltykov was transferred to Tver where he often performed governor's functions
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Saltykov retired from the government service and came to Moscow with the view of founding his own magazine there
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1858· 1 entry
Saltykov arrived to Ryazan very informally, in an ordinary road carriage, which amazed the local 'society' for whom he'd been known already as Provincial Sketches' author
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1857· 2 entries
Sovremennik at last reacted: both Dobrolyubov and Chernyshevsky rather belatedly praised Saltykov, characteristically, imparting to his work what it's never had: "aiming at the undermining the Empire's foundations
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The Russian Messenger published Pazukhin's Death, a play which was quite in tune with Provincial Sketches
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1856· 1 entry
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
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1855· 1 entry
Tzar Nicholas I died and the climate in the country instantly changed
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1850· 1 entry
Became the organizer of the Vyatka agricultural exhibition, one of the largest in the country
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1848· 1 entry
Saltykov got summoned to the capital to give evidence on his involvement in the group's activity
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1847· 1 entry
Saltykov debuted with his first novella Contradictions (under the pseudonym M
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1844· 1 entry
Saltykov, who was one of the best students, was promoted directly to the chancellery of the Ministry of Defense
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1834· 1 entry
His elder sister Nadezhda graduated from the Moscow Ekaterininsky college, and Mikhail's education from then on was the prerogative of her friend Avdotya Vasilevskaya, a graduate of the same institute who had been invite
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1826· 1 entry
Born 1826-01-15.
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