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SALTYKOV (STCHEDRIN), See also:MICHAEL EVGRAFOVICH (1826-(1889) , See also:Russian satirist, was See also:born on his See also:father's See also:estate in the See also:province of See also:Tula, 15th (27th) See also:January 1826. His See also:early See also:education was completely neglected, and his youth, owing to the severity and the domestic quarrels of his parents, was full of the most See also:melancholy experiences. See also:Left entirely to himself, he See also:developed a love for See also:reading; but the only See also:book in his father's See also:house was the See also:Bible, which he studied with deep See also:attention. At ten years of See also:age he entered the See also:Moscow See also:Institute for the sons of the See also:nobility, and subsequently the See also:Lyceum at St See also:Petersburg, where See also:Prince Lobanov Rostofski, afterwards See also:minister for See also:foreign affairs, was one of his schoolfellows. While there he published See also:poetry, and See also:translations of some of the See also:works of See also:Byron and See also:Heine; and on leaving the Lyceum he obtained employment as a clerk in the See also:Ministry of See also:War. In 1884 he published Zaputennoye Dyelo (" A Complicated Affair "), which, in view of the revolutionary movements at that See also:time in See also:France and See also:Germany, was the cause of his banishment to See also:Vyatka, where he spent eight years as a See also:minor See also:government See also:official. This experience enabled him to study the See also:life and habits of See also:civil servants in the interior, and to give a See also:clever picture of Russian provincial officials in his Gubernskie Otcherki (" Provincial Sketches "). On his return to St See also:Peters-See also:burg as he was quickly promoted to administrative posts of considerable importance. After making a See also:report on the See also:condition of the Russian See also:police, he was appointed See also:deputy See also:governor, first of See also:Ryazan and then of See also:Tver. His predilection for See also:literary See also:work induced him to leave the government service, but pecuniary difficulties soon compelled him to re-enter it, and in 1864 he was appointed See also:president of the See also:local boards of See also:taxation successively at See also:Penza, Tula and Ryazan. In 1868 he finally quitted the civil service. Subsequently he wrote his See also:principal works, namely, Poshekhonskaya Starina (" The Old Times of Poshekhona "), which possesses a certain autobiographical See also:interest; Istoria odnavo Goroda (" The See also:History of a See also:Town "); A Satirical History of See also:Russia ; Messieurs et Mesdames Pompadours; and Messieurs Golovloff.

At one time, after the See also:

death of the poet Nekrasov, he acted as editor of a leading Russian See also:magazine, the Contemporary. He died in St Petersburg on the 3oth of See also:April (12th May) 1889. (G.

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