SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN MIKHAIL EVGRAFOVICH (1826-1889). Satires in prose.

SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN MIKHAIL EVGRAFOVICH (1826-1889). Satires in prose.
SPb.: ed. book. shop of Serno-Solovyevich; print. K. Wolf, 1863. - [6], 467 p.; 19, 5x14 cm. In the composite owner’s cover. Very good condition. Minor tears of the last pages. Gold-embossed super book plate ‘E. K.’ in the
lower margin of the spine. The collection comprises stories, essays and dramatic scenes of 1859-1862 reflecting the picture of Russian social life in the period of the 60s. Saltykov-Shchedrin Mikhail Efgrafovich (1826-1889) –
Russian realist writer, critic, author of critical satirical works, known under the pseudonym Nikolai Shchedrin (real name of the writer-Saltykov), one of the brightest writers of his time. He spent the autumn and winter of 1875 in Nice. His impressions of the Cote d’azur he described in his letter to P. V. Annenkov: ‘I do not find anything special in
Nice; the city is unclean, there is no place to walk, and the notorious Promenade des Anglais seemed to me a pity. The surroundings are really charming, judging by what I saw yesterday when I went to Villefranche. Since I intend to stay here for 5 months, I will probably go around everywere. Soon I will go to Monte Carlo to see the cultural Russian people.’
The first separate edition of the collection.
Bibliography: Ulianinsky. No. 4299.