Gentlemen Golovlev

Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889)-Russian writer, critic and journalist. In his works, Saltykov-Shchedrin raised acute social issues, topics of morality and morality in his contemporary society.
“The gentlemen of Golovlevova” (1880)-a cycle of stories about the landowner Golovlevy family. Later, the author decided to combine these stories into the novel.
The main character of the novel is Porfiry Golovlev, “Judas”, “Bloody Pivushka” these nicknames in childhood gives him the elder brother Stepan. From an early age, Porfiry learned to go to the imperious, despotic mother Arina Petrovna and influence her decisions. And the mother, in turn, felt that her son was hiding behind the “meekness and affection”