Evangelical sources of the sorrowful satires by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Ideas for the reconstruction of life, the solution of public order issues in the work of Saltykov-Shchedrin, with his greatest sympathy for the Russian peasant, were always comprehended by the writer in the context of a not narrowly differentiated social concept, but were deduced into the plan of universal destiny, which predetermined the depth of the artistic image, the philosophical and psychological capacity of his creations. The author of the article sees in this the evangelical sources.