This book, one of the major 19th century Russian novels (written in 1880), is a portrait of a diseased psyche but also acts as a grim study of the author's Russia, a country spiritually bankrupt, divided by self-interest and the greed of the rich....
M.E.Saltykova-Shhedrina zasluzhenno otnosjat k pisateljam-satirikam mirovoj velichiny. No pri jetom zachastuju ego proizvedenija tolkujut lish' kak satiru na gosudarstvennoe ustrojstvo i porjadki samoderzhavnoj Rossii. V jetoj knige sdelana popytka p...
«Istoriju odnogo goroda» Mihaila Evgrafovicha Saltykova-Shhedrina sovremenniki nazyvali «paskvilem na istoriju gosudarstva Rossijskogo». Jeta kniga sohranjaet aktual'nost' i v nashe vremja, javljajas', po suti, ne besposhhadnym prigovorom «russk...
The award-winning translators bring us a new translation of an 1870 comic novel by Russia's greatest satirist -- whose mockery of Russian autocracy is newly relevant in the age of Putin.A major classic in Russia, though not as well known in the West,...