Tvorchestvo M.E. Saltykova (Shchedrina) zanimaet osoboe mesto v istorii russkoi literatury. Ego satira otklikalas na vse znachitelnye iavleniia obshchestvennoi zhizni, bezzhalostno bichuia poroki, oblichaia lozh i nravstvennyi upadok epokhi Ð"«velikikh reformÐ"». Razmyshleniia o sudbe Rossii, o probleme Ð"«ottcov i deteiÐ"» nashli otrazhenie i v znamenitom romane Ð"«Gospoda GolovlevyÐ"» (1880), a obraz glavnogo geroia вÐ"†Iudushki Golovleva, вÐ"†bessporno, prinadlezhit k chislu samykh krupnykh sozdanii otechestvennoi literatury.