Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889) spent most of his life working as a civil servant in various capacities. After the death of poet Nikolay Nekrasov he acted as editor of the well-known Russian magazine, Otechestvenniye Zapiski until the government banned it in 1884. His best-known work, the novel THE GOLOVLYOV FAMILY, appeared in 1876.