Saltykov-Shchedrin M. E. (1826-1889), writer

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SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN (real name Saltykov) Mikhail Yevgrafovich (1826-1889, St. Petersburg), writer. Graduated from the Alexander Lyceum (1844). Served at the Chancellory of the Military Ministry. In 1848 was banished to Vyatka for his narrative about a poor clerk A Complicated Affair. From 1856-58 served as an officer for the Special Commission to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, contributed to the preparation of the peasant reform (1861). During his service years in the province (1856-62) appeared in the Moscow periodicals and the Sovremennik journal (from 1860, in 1864 left the editorial board), where, inter alia, Our Public Life review was regularly published, aiming its polemics at the Russkoe slovo, Vremya and Epokha journals. In 1868 upon his resignation he permanently returned to St. Petersburg. In 1868 assumed the post of co-editor of the renewed Otechestvennye Zapiski after the journal"s suppression joined the Vestnik Evropy journal. Virtually all of Saltykov-Shchedrin"s works of the 1860-80s were published in these journals, with most of them providing extensive exposition of the Petersburg life and its nine day"s wonder (cyclus The Diary of a Provincial in St. Petersburg; The Gentlemen of Tashkent; The Well-meaning Words, Cultivated Men, In the Ambiance of Moderation and Orderliness; All the Year Round; The Trifles of Life; Variegated Letters; novel Modern Idyll. A lot of Shchedrin"s characters became common nouns, and some turns of phrase became part of Russian life (including those of the Petersburg one) became part of Russian cultural history preserving the writers original wording: What"s your pleasure? (Novoe Vremya newspaper), Russia"s Oldest Milk-skimmer (Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti). From 1868-73 lived at 41 Furshtatskaya Street; from 1876 until his death at 60 Liteiny Avenue (memorial plaque). Buried at Literatorskiye Mostki (bust - 1890, sculptor L. А. Bernstam, architect F. А. Krasovsky). Kirochnaya Street was from 1932-98 Saltykova-Shchedrina Street; The State Public Library from 1932-92 also was named after Shchedrin (today the Russian National Library).

References: Кривенко С. Н. М. Е. Салтыков: Его жизнь и лит. деятельность: Биогр. очерк. 3-е изд. Пг., 1914; Ермакова-Битнер Г. В. Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин // Литературные памятные места Ленинграда. 3-е изд., испр. и доп. Л., 1976. С. 309-332; Исаченко В. Г. Третий от Невского проспекта // Дома рассказывают. СПб., 2002. Вып. 2. С. 158-202.

A. B. Muratov. Bernstam Leopold-Bernhard (Leopold Adolfovich)
Krasovsky Alexander Fedorovich
Saltykov-Shchedrin (real name Saltykov) Mikhail Evgrafovich
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 33
Kirochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 60
Кривенко С. Н. М. Е. Салтыков: Его жизнь и лит. деятельность: Биогр. очерк. 3-е изд. Пг., 1914
Исаченко В. Г. Третий от Невского проспекта // Дома рассказывают. СПб., 2002
Ермакова-Битнер Г. В. Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин // Литературные памятные места Ленинграда. 3-е изд., испр. и доп. Л., 1976 Lyceum
Sovremennik (Contemporary), journal
Russkoe slovo (The Russian Word), journal, 1859-1866
Vremya (The Time), journal
Epokha (The Epoch), journal
Otechestvennye Zapiski (Notes of the Fatherland), journal
Vestnik Evropy (The Herald of Europe), 1866-1918
Novoe vremya (The New Time), newspaper, 1868-1917
Sankt Peterburgskie Vedomosti (St. Petersburg Gazette), newspaper
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis
1868
1889