Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov

Broschiertes Buch

Tchinovnicks, Sketches Of Provincial Life

From The Memoirs Of The Retired Conseiller De Cour Stchedrin Saltikow (1861)

Beschreibung

""Tchinovnicks, Sketches Of Provincial Life: From The Memoirs Of The Retired Conseiller De Cour Stchedrin Saltikow"" is a book written by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov and published in 1861. The book is a collection of sketches that depict the lives of bureaucrats and officials in provincial Russia during the 19th century. The main character, Stchedrin Saltikow, is a retired court counselor who provides an insider's perspective on the corruption, incompetence, and absurdity of the Russian bureaucracy. Through his observations, the book exposes the flaws of the system and the impact it has on the lives of ordinary people. Saltykov's writing is satirical and humorous, but also critical and insightful. ""Tchinovnicks, Sketches Of Provincial Life"" is a classic work of Russian literature that offers a unique and entertaining glimpse into the social and political realities of the time.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Autor

Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, born Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov and known during his lifetime by the pen name Nikolai Shchedrin, was a prominent Russian writer and satirist in the nineteenth century. He spent the majority of his life working as a civil servant in various positions. Following the death of poet Nikolay Nekrasov, he served as editor of the Russian literary magazine Otechestvenniye Zapiski until it was outlawed by the Tsarist authorities in 1884. Saltykov's paintings exemplified both stark reality and humorous grotesque combined with imagination. Saltykov's most famous works, the family chronicle novel The Golovlyov Family (1880) and the political novel The History of a Town (1870), are seminal works of nineteenth-century fiction, and he is considered as a key character in Russian Literary Realism. Mikhail Saltykov was born on January 27, 1826, in the village of Spas-Ugol (modern-day Taldomsky District of the Moscow Oblast of Russia), as one of eight children (five brothers and three sisters) in the large Russian noble family of Yevgraf Vasilievich Saltykov (1776-1851) and Olga Mikhaylovna Saltykova (nee Zabelina; 1801-74). His father belonged to a historic Saltykov noble house descended from a branch of the Morozov boyar dynasty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781437093483
• ISBN-10: 1437093485
• Artikelnr.: 25511839