Fairy tales. Saltykov-Shchedrin (6, 7, 10 grade). Saltykov-Shchedrin

Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889) was one of the central figures in the history of literature of the 19th century and in the full sense of the person’s personality: a graduate of the legendary Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, appointed by Pushkin’s successor in his class, trying his strength in poetry and prose, He began his career as an official, rose to the vice-governor, and resigned as a real state adviser. Contemporaries considered these years “an era, earlier and later than which there was nothing like this. In the conversations it was heard: before Saltykov, after Saltykov... ”However, the service, which he gave so much effort, passion and patience, was not the main thing for him - they were writing. He possessed an innate gift of the satirist, it was a special mindset and speech - to force readers and listeners to laugh. The famous physiologist M. I. Sechenov called him a magnificent “diagnostician of public evils and ailments”, and I. S. Aksakov said that Saltykov “This is the historical janitor of the St. Petersburg period. A janitor with a huge broom. " The ideal of the writer was a person who realized his human dignity, and a book was supposed to help her that gives knowledge about life, affordable and truthful, even if it was a fairy tale - because behind the fiction in the works of Saltykov -Shchedrin lies an extremely living and clear understanding of reality.