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 and includes all currently known works of the writer, both completed and and unfinished. The first volume included the stories: “Contradictions”, “Chapter”, “An Entangled Case”, “Brusin”; as well as reviews and poems: “Two Angels”, “Song”, “Lyre”, “Fisherman”, “From Byron” and others.