Shchedrin, Nikolai

Japanese: シチェドリン（英語表記）Shchedrin， Nikolai

Born January 27, 1826 in Tver
Died: May 10, 1889. Petersburg. Russian satirist. His real name was Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov. Born into an old noble family, he witnessed the despotism of the old family and the tyranny of the landlords from his childhood. He graduated from the Tsarskoye Selo academy (Ritsey) and entered the civil service. His political views were nurtured by his association with M. Petrashevsky and his interest in French utopian socialism, especially C. Fourier. His first novels, Protivorechiya (1847) and Zaputannoe delo (48), were condemned by the authorities and he was exiled to Vyatka. After his release in 1856, he compiled his impressions of his time in exile in Gubernskie ocherki (57), satirizing bureaucracy. He later participated in the editing of the magazines Contemporaries and Records of the Fatherland, and became a central member of the revolutionary democratic movement. His other works include Istoriya Odnogo Goroda (History of a City) (70), The Golovlëv Family (Gospoda Golovlëvy) (76) and Poshekhonskaya Starina (Old Customs of a Remote Place) (89).

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[生]1826.1.27. トベーリ
[没]1889.5.10. ペテルブルグ
ロシアの風刺作家。本名 Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov。旧貴族の家に生れ，少年時代から旧家の専制主義と地主の横暴ぶりを目撃して育ち，ツァールスコエ・セローの学習院 (リツェイ) を卒業，官界に入った。 M.ペトラシェフスキーとの交わりと，フランス空想社会主義，とりわけ C.フーリエへの興味が彼の政治観を育てた。最初の小説『矛盾』 Protivorechiya (1847) ，『もつれた事件』 Zaputannoe delo (48) が当局にとがめられ，ビャトカに追放されたが，1856年釈放されると流刑地での印象を『県の記録』 Gubernskie ocherki (57) にまとめ官僚主義を風刺した。その後『同時代人』『祖国の記録』誌の編集に参加し，革命的民主主義の潮流の中心メンバーとなった。その他の作品『ある市の歴史』 Istoriya odnogo goroda (70) ，『ゴロブリョーフ家の人々』 Gospoda Golovlëvy (76) ，『僻地の旧習』 Poshekhonskaya starina (89) 。

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