About the book: 1973 / 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 the currently known works of the writer, both completed and unfinished. The first book of the fifteenth volume contains the satirical novel “Modern Idyll” - one of the peaks of Saltykov’s artistic creativity. http:// ruslit.traumlibrary.net