About the book: 1968 / This Collected Works and Letters of Saltykov-Shchedrin, in which the experience and materials of the previous edition are critically used, is carried out with 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 sixth volume of this edition includes Saltykov’s journalistic works of 1863–1864: the chronicle review “Our Social Life”; articles and essays thematically adjacent to this cycle: “Modern Ghosts”, “Like Anyone”, “In the Village”; materials of Saltykov’s journal polemics with “Russian Word” and “Epoch”. http://ruslit.traumlibrary.net