The History of a Town

Name: The History of a Town
Author: Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Satirical novel depicting a Russian provincial town's chaotic history and absurd succession of mayors

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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Russian satirist whose savage political fiction attacked the corruption and absurdity of the tsarist bureaucracy. The Golovlyov Family is his masterpiece, a harrowing portrait of a provincial gentry family's spiritual and material decline.

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