The most complete and beautifully published collection of works by Mikhail Efgrafovich Saltykov - Shchedrin, a brilliant artist and thinker, a brilliant publicist and literary critic, a talented journalist, one of the most prominent figures of the Russian liberation movement. His gift is a rare phenomenon. it is difficult to imagine classical Russian literature without Saltykov-Shchedrin. This collection of works and letters of Saltykov-Shchedrin is carried out taking into account the latest achievements of Shchedrin studies. The collection is the most complete of all existing ones and includes all currently known works of the writer, both completed and and unfinished. The sixth volume included: an essay “Our Social Life”, articles, journal polemics.

INTRODUCTION. WELL-INTENTIONAL AND NIHILIISTS - SENECHKIN I. — BOYS. — MODERN EQUILIBRISTICS. — ORIGIN AND REASONS FOR IT

DISCLAIMER. — A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE NOBILITY OF FEELINGS IN GENERAL. — CARDBOARD FOOD, CARDBOARD SPEARS, CARDBOARD SPEECHES. — LITERARY NOBILITY IN PARTICULAR, AND EXAMPLES OF IT. — EXAMPLE STORIES AND EXAMPLE DRAMAS. - "VANYA - WHITE GLOVES AND MASHA - A HOLE RUBBER." — “HAMI-EDUCATED AND GREED ARE BROTHER SISTERS.” - “SON OF THE TRADER.” - “POOR NIECE.” — WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM NOBILITY IN THE FUTURE? — SEVERAL MEANS FOR REVITALIZING RUSSIAN LITERATURE. - CONCLUSION. — ALARMS OF “TIME”

A FEW WORDS ABOUT JUSTICE. - THE CASE OF PETER AND IVAN. — MR FET AS PUBLICIST. — HAPPY VILLAGERS AND OPPRESSED LANDOWNERS. — SOMETHING ABOUT CONNECTIVITY AND COMMUNICATION

BITTER REFLECTIONS ABOUT LIFE AND VARIOUS ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN SOCIETY. — IT IS PROVED THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE DESPAIRED IN ANY CASE. - GOOD PEOPLE. — THE EXPLOITS OF RUSSIAN WALKING PEOPLE ABROAD. - WHERE IS THE SOURCE OF THESE FEATS AND WHO ARE THEIR HEROES. — A BAD JOKE WITH TWO RUSSIAN LADIES IN THE CAPITAL OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD

APPEAL TO THE READER. — MANIFESTATIONS OF PATRIOTISM. — “STATEMENT” OF MOSCOW UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. — PATRIOTIC PROJECTS. — ABOUT ELOQUETIVENESS, AS ABOUT AN INNATE AND INDEPENDENT POWER. — SOMETHING ABOUT THE NEED TO BE PRESENT. — A LITERARY CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE MODERN YOUNG GENERATION. - HOW OLD AGE COME. — ONE WORD TO THE CHRONICLE OF “DOMESTIC NOTES”

GE’S PICTURE. — A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT THE fact that ART OFTEN PROMOTES THINKING. — LOVELY NAUGHTS, OR “OUR ARSENAL OF CIVILIANS” WEAPON." - IS IT TRUE, CHILDREN, THAT YOU ARE BAD STUDENTS? - “WELL NO, I DO NOT AGREE TO JUMP!” — SECOND-CLASS POLITICS

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN GENERAL AND FICTION IN PARTICULAR. — DEPRESSION OF CREATIVITY AND THE REASONS FOR THIS PHENOMENON. - WHY THE PROUDEST INDIAN COCKS ARE AT TIMES FOFANA. - EXAMPLES. — KASHIN CELEBRATIONS. - WHAT'S BETTER? — A CURIOUS DISPUTE BETWEEN TWO MOSCOW PUBLICISTS. — FAREWELL TO THE READER AND HOPES FOR THE FUTURE

REFLECTIONS ON THE OCCASION OF THE NEW YEAR. - DISCOVERIES BROUGHT BY THEM. — SOMETHING ABOUT LOWERING THE TONE. — SOMETHING ABOUT INDEPENDENCE. — SOMETHING ABOUT THE ABUNDANCE OF GENIUS. — CONCLUSION AND A WORD IN MY OWN DEFENSE

VILLAGE IN WINTER. — THE IMPRESSION MADE BY THE VILLAGE ON THE TRAVELER. - A MAN'S LIVING. — SUBTLE CIRCUMSTANCES LANDSCAPE. — FINAL REFLECTIONS

“BOYS.” — BIOGRAPHY OF VASI. — MORE ABOUT THE YOUNG GENERATION. — LOP-EARED AND FOOLING

APPEAL TO THE READER. - SOME ALMOST INSURABLE DIFFICULTIES COUNTERED BY THE FOUILLETONIST - ABOUT ELOTORITY AS AN INHERENT AND INDEPENDENT POWER. — SOMETHING ABOUT THE NEED TO BE PRESENT. — A LITERARY CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE MODERN YOUNG GENERATION. — HOW OLD AGE COME — ONE WORD TO THE CHRONICLE OF “DOMESTIC NOTES”