| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail Evgrafovich |
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(m kh yl´ y vgrä´fvch säl´tkôf-shch ´drn) (KEY) , 1826–89, Russian novelist and satirist. Saltykov-Shchedrin was a master of the satirical sketch, which he used to attack the bourgeoisie, the gentry, and the officials of the civil service, of which he was a member. His greatest satirical work is The History of a Town (1869–70), directed against Russian officials and citizens alike. His masterpiece is his only novel, The Golovyov Family (1876, tr. 1931), a study of decaying gentry. Fables (1885, tr. 1931), a collection of pointedly critical tales in the manner of Aesop, revealed his genius for circumventing the censor. | 1 | | See N. Strelsky, Saltykov and the Russian Squire (1940). | 2 |
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