Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov

Russian author

Also known as: N. Shchedrin

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Pseudonym:: N. Shchedrin

Born:: Jan. 27 [Jan. 15, old style], 1826, Spas-Ugol, Russia

Died:: May 10 [April 28, O.S.], 1889, St. Petersburg (aged 63)

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Mikhail Yevgrafovich, Count Saltykov (born Jan. 27 [Jan. 15, old style], 1826, Spas-Ugol, Russia—died May 10 [April 28, O.S.], 1889, St. Petersburg) was a novelist of radical sympathies and one of the greatest of all Russian satirists. A sensitive boy, he was deeply shocked by his mother’s cruel treatment of peasants, which he later described in one of his most important works, Poshekhonskaya starina (1887–89; “Old Times in Poshekhona”). In 1838 he was sent to the Imperial Lycée at Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin), Russia’s training ground for high officers of state, where he began to compose and publish verses. Reacting ...(100 of 343 words)

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