"Decency to every disgrace": 195th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
2021-01-27T07:42:28.223Z
On January 27, 1826, Russian writer and journalist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was born. He began his career as a poet, but became famous thanks to prose: the novels "The History of a City", "Poshekhonskaya Starina", "Lord Golovlyovs", as well as satirical tales illustrating life in the provinces. For his first publications, Saltykov-Shchedrin was in exile, but then, in parallel with writing, he built a successful career in the civil service, where he grew up to the vice-governor of Ryazan, and later - Tver. Since the late 1860s, the writer, together with Nikolai Nekrasov, held the post of co-editor of the journal Otechestvennye zapiski, which he later headed until its closure.
Source: russiart