The story of one city. Saltykov-Shchedrin M.E.

The annals of the conditional Russian city, in which the funny is mixed with the terrible. Saltykov-Shchedrin writes Satire on modern Russia under the guise of satires on Russian history-and creates a satire on Russian eternity.

“The main books of Russian literature”-a joint series of Alpina. Prose ”and the Internet project“ Regiment ”. The works that are in it are chosen by modern writers, critics, literary critics, and teachers. This is an attempt to determine what the Russian literary canon looks like today, and a new look at famous works: each book is accompanied by the preface of the authors “Regiment