Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin: Tales

In all the tales of Saltykov-Shchedrin, two planes are organically combined: real and fantastic, life and fiction, and fiction is always based on real events.
In fairy tales, we meet typical heroes for Shchedrin. Here are the stupid, ferocious, ignorant rulers of the people ("Bear on the Voivodes"), here are the people, powerful, hardworking, talented, but at the same time humble to their oppressors (" Tale of how one man fed two generals", "horseback ") The heroes of these fairy tales are depicted as masks-symbols, combined into collective images of social types.
Presenting the people, Shchedrin sympathizes with him and at the same time condemns him for patience and meekness.
For senior school age