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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

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in Village Spas-Ugol, Kalyazin uyezd, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire

January 27, 1826

Died

May 10, 1889

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Mikhail Saltykov was born on 27 January 1826 in the village of Spas-Ugol (modern-day Taldomsky District of the Moscow Oblast of Russia) as one of the eight children (five brothers and three sisters) in the large Russian noble family of Yevgraf Vasilievich Saltykov (1776—1851) and Olga Mikhaylovna Saltykova (née Zabelina) (1801—1874). His father belonged to an ancient Saltykov noble house that originated as one of the branches of the Morozov boyar family. According to the Velvet Book, it was founded by Mikhail Ignatievich Morozov nicknamed Saltyk (from the Old Church Slavonic word "saltyk" meaning "one's own way/taste"), the son of Ignaty Mikhailovich Morozov and a great-grandson of the founder of the dynasty Ivan Semyonovich Moroz who lived Mikhail Saltykov was born on 27 January 1826 in the village of Spas-Ugol (modern-day Taldomsky District of the Moscow Oblast of Russia) as one of the eight children (five brothers and three sisters) in the large Russian noble family of Yevgraf Vasilievich Saltykov (1776—1851) and Olga Mikhaylovna Saltykova (née Zabelina) (1801—1874). His father belonged to an ancient Saltykov noble house that originated as one of the branches of the Morozov boyar family. According to the Velvet Book, it was founded by Mikhail Ignatievich Morozov nicknamed Saltyk (from the Old Church Slavonic word "saltyk" meaning "one's own way/taste"), the son of Ignaty Mikhailovich Morozov and a great-grandson of the founder of the dynasty Ivan Semyonovich Moroz who lived during the 14-15th centuries. The Saltykov family also shared the Polish Sołtyk coat of arms. It gave birth to many important political figures throughout history, including the Tsaritsa of Russia Praskovia Saltykova and her daughter, the Empress of Russia Anna Ioannovna.

Saltykov's mother was an heir to a rich Moscow merchant of the 1st level guild Mikhail Petrovich Zabelin whose ancestors belonged to the so-called trading peasants and who was granted hereditary nobility for his handsome donation to the army needs in 1812; his wife Marfa Ivanovna Zabelina also came from wealthy Moscow merchants. At the time of Mikhail Saltykov's birth, Yevgraf was fifty years old, while Olga was twenty five. Mikhail spent his early years on his parents' large estate in Spasskoye on the border of the Tver and Yaroslavl governorates, in the Poshekhonye region.

"In my childhood and teenage years I witnessed serfdom at its worst. It saturated all strata of social life, not just the landlords and the enslaved masses, degrading all classes, privileged or otherwise, with its atmosphere of a total lack of rights, when fraud and trickery were the order of the day, and there was an all-pervading fear of being crushed and destroyed at any moment," he remembered, speaking through one of the characters of his later work Old Years in Poshekhonye. Life in the Saltykov family was equally difficult. Dominating the weak, religious father was despotic mother whose intimidating persona horrified the servants and her own children. This atmosphere was later recreated in Shchedrin's novel The Golovlyov Family, and the idea of "the devastating effect of legalized slavery upon the human psyche" would become one of the prominent motifs of his prose. Olga Mikhaylovna, though, was a woman of many talents; having perceived some in Mikhail, she treated him as her favourite.

The Saltykovs often quarrelled; they gave their children neither love nor care and Mikhail, despite enjoying relative freedom in the house, remembered feeling lonely and neglected. Another thing Saltykov later regretted was his having been completely shut out from nature in his early years: the children lived in the main house and were rarely allowed to go out, knowing their "animals and birds only as boiled and fried." Characteristically, there were few descriptions of nature in the author's works. ...more

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	The Golovlyov Family by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Natalie Duddington (Translator), Николай Муратов (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 3,047 ratings — published 1880 — 216 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	История одного города by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин 3.89 avg rating — 1,290 ratings — published 1870 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Thomas Seltzer (editor) 3.66 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1869 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from M. Saltykov-Shchedrin by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, John Gibbons (Editor), Annamaria Scorza Toso (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1981 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Премудрый пискарь by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин 3.89 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1883 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Дикий помещик by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин 3.84 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1869 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Пошехонская старина by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин 4.45 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1890 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Медведь на воеводстве by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الخزي: أنشودة رعوية معاصرة by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, ميخائيل سالطيكوف-شيدرين, يوسف نبيل (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1883 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Дневник провинциала в Петербурге by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин 3.46 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
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“The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.”
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“Ежели человек, произведший в свою пользу отчуждение на сумму в несколько миллионов рублей, сделается впоследствии даже меценатом и построит мраморный палаццо, в котором сосредоточит все чудеса науки и искусства, то его все-таки нельзя назвать искусным общественным деятелем, а следует назвать только искусным мошенником.”
― Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, История одного города

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