About the book: year / "The lecture is dedicated to the work of the Russian classic Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, who suffered most from the fact that in Russia there was an approximately seventy-year period of Marxist literary criticism, which completely silenced or distorted this essentially deeply religious writer. They turned him into a pamphleteer, and a third-rate pamphleteer at that; of his entire legacy, only fairy tales remained more or less relevant and included in the everyday reading circle. And to some extent, “Mister Golovlevs”. Perhaps his most spectacular, but far from his most successful work…»