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Satirists from the Russian Empire

  • Fyodor RostopchinFyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin was born in the Kosmodemyanskoe village, now part of the Livensky District in Oryol Oblast.
  • Nikolai LeskovNikolai Semyonovich Leskov was born on the 4th of February 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo, Oryol Gubernia. His father Semyon Dmitrievich worked as a…
  • Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinMikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov was born on the 27th of January 1826 in the village of Spas-Ugol. He entered the world as one of eight children within a large…
  • Nikolay NekrasovIn January 1823 Alexey Nekrasov retired from the army and moved his family to an estate in Greshnevo, Yaroslavl province.