About the book: year / Among the many responses to the death of Turgenev, Saltykov’s anonymous speech is one of the most remarkable. In terms of the depth and scale of the historical understanding of Turgenev, his significance for Russian life, this speech was paralleled in those days by only one thing - the “Turgenev proclamation” of the Narodnaya Volya members, written by P. F. Yakubovich and distributed in St. Petersburg on the day of the writer’s funeral.