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MIKHAIL SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN (1826-1889), known during his life by his pen name, Nikolai Shchedrin, was a major Russian writer and satirist. Born to a noble family, he worked as a civil servant while writing for and editing radical journals, which led to a banishment of seven years. His most famous novels are the family saga The Golovlyov Family (1880) and the political satire The History of a Town (1870). About the Translators- RICHARD PEVEAR and LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov, Leskov, and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married and live in France.
"""There is a Putinesque leader of the town who dreams of restoring Russia’s former glory . . . and a character named Trump (an exact translation of Kozyr), a ‘simple ragpicker’ who takes advantage of crisis to make money and switches from one party to another for political gain. . . . Volokhonsky called the book timeless, adding that, ‘it’s very much bound with Russian history, but it’s also about the human condition’.” —The New York Times"
