About the book: 1970 / This Collected Works and Letters of Saltykov-Shchedrin, in which the experience and materials of the previous edition are critically used, is carried out taking into account the latest achievements of Soviet Shchedrin studies . The collection is the most complete of all existing ones and includes all currently known works of the writer, both completed and unfinished. The tenth volume includes one of Saltykov’s most famous books - “Gentlemen of Tashkent”, which appeared at the turn of the 60s and 70s of the last century and, as always with this writer, was inextricably linked with the Russian reality of that time. Also included is “The Diary of a Provincial in St. Petersburg.” http://ruslit.traumlibrary.net