Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin , born Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov and known during his lifetime by the pen name Nikolai Shchedrin , was a major Russian writer and satirist of the 19th century. He spent most of his life working as a civil servant in various capacities. After the death of poet Nikolay Nekrasov, he acted as editor of a Russian literary magazine Otechestvenniye Zapiski until the Tsarist government banned it in 1884. In his works Saltykov mastered both stark realism and satirical grotesque merged with fantasy. His most famous works, the family chronicle novel The Golovlyov Family and the political novel The History of a Town became important works of 19th-century fiction, and Saltykov is regarded as a major figure of Russian literary Realism.
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