Saltykov (Shchedrin). Dmitrenko S.

This writer is known to everyone, his works have long been included in the school curriculum, but his biography is known to few. His real name is Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov - and the pseudonym "N. Shchedrin ”firmly connected in the surname“ Saltykov-Shchedrin ”, which he never used. In Soviet times, he was considered a revolutionary, an exposure of the “autocracy ulcers”, although he was a supporter of reforms and a royal official who rose to the vice-governor. The book of literature historian Sergei Dmitrenko with previously unprecedented objectivity and fully describes the creative and personal life of Saltykov (Shchedrin) - a man of amazing talent and huge hard work, who had many friends and even more enemies who sincerely loved his country and believed in its future.