About the book: 1974 / This Collected Works and Letters of Saltykov-Shchedrin, in which the experience and materials of the previous edition are critically used, is being 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. In August 1886, Saltykov completed “Motley Letters” with the long-planned ninth “letter” about “motley people” and immediately and began work on one of his most significant, deepest works - the cycle “Little Things in Life.” http://ruslit.traumlibrary.net