The Republic of ShKID

“The Republic of ShKID” is a children’s story by Leonid Panteleev and Grigory Belykh, genre: children’s literature, adventures. The autobiographical story “The Republic of ShKID” by Grigory Belykh and Leonid Panteleev tells of the life of yesterday’s homeless teen offenders of post-revolutionary Petersburg, who found themselves and their fate at the Dostoyevsky School of Social and Labor Education (ShKID). The Republic of ShKID is the most ambiguous “pedagogical poem,” and perhaps its very wrongness is what draws the attention of readers of all ages—and for good reason it belongs to the classics of Soviet literature. The story “The Republic of ShKID” is included in the “100 Books” list on the history, culture, and literature of the peoples of the Russian Federation recommended for reading.