The History of a Town

The collection includes the best satirical works of Saltykov-Shchedrin, which have entered the golden fund of Russian literature.

A novel-pamphlet “The History of One Town,” in which behind the ironic grotesque of an incredible story about the fictional town of Glupov, there is a fully real Russian province— a province of embezzlement and servility, total corruption, and unbridled despotism of those in power. Fairy tales-parables that bitterly mock the ruling classes, officials, and politicians. Fairy tales that we reread in adulthood—and they sound completely differently…