On this day, 136 years ago, May 10, 1889 (April 11, 1889 in the lunar calendar), Russian writer Shedrin passed away. Sartikov Shedrin was born in 1826 into a landlord family. From an early age, he had witnessed the arbitrariness and tyranny of the landlord class and their cruel oppression and exploitation of the peasants. At the age of 10, he entered the aristocratic school of Moscow, and two years later, he was sent to the Royal Village School for excellent grades. At that time, Belinsky and Herzen's revolutionary democratic thoughts and realistic literary ideals, and Petrashevsky's utopian socialist thoughts had a profound influence on Shedrin. Later, he joined the Petrashevsky Group to study works on utopian socialism. Sheddin began to engage in literary creation while he was a student. He published his first poem "Harp" in 1841, his first novella "Contradictions" in 1847, and the following year, his other novella "Complex Events" came out. These two works reflect the contradiction between ideal and realization, and boldly raise the sharp issue of social inequality. The work was banned by the government due to its strong political overtones, and Shedrin was arrested and exiled to Viatka. During his exile, Schedrin came into contact with various representatives of the ruling class and gained a deeper understanding of the people's suffering. In 1856, Schedrin was released from prison and returned to Petersburg. Soon after, he published a feature collection "Miscellaneous Notes in the Provinces" based on what he saw and heard during his exile, and serialized it in the "Russian Herald". "Miscellaneous Notes on Other Provinces" includes more than 30 feature articles, which profoundly expose the corruption in serfdom Russia. From 1860 to 1884, Schedrin served as editor of the Russian progressive literary magazines "Modern Man" and "Motherland Chronicle" at that time. These two magazines published timely articles reflecting major political events at the time and engaged in fierce polemic with reactionary and liberal publications. Although they were repeatedly harassed and persecuted by the reactionary authorities, they were always the center of Russia's progressive forces at that time. While working in the magazine, which was also a bumper year for Schedrin's creation, he wrote many satire works, the most prominent of which were the satirical novel "A History of a City" and the novel "The Golovlyv Family". The seizure of "Motherland Chronicle" in 1884 was a heavy blow to Schedrin, but he did not put down his pen. Although he was old and sick, he still wrote the famous book "Collection of Fairy Tales", which contained both political satire content and artistic charm."Collection of Fairy Tales" can be said to be the crystallization of his life's creation. Schedrin's clear-cut creations helped the people find a path to Marxist and revolutionary struggle and promoted the Russian liberation movement. On May 10, 1889, Sheddin unfortunately passed away. However, the artistic model he created has become a sharp weapon often used by the people in their fight against the enemy. Lenin spoke highly of Shedrin, believing that he "once taught Russian society to recognize his predatory interests through the so-called cultured disguise of serfdom landlords, and taught people to hate such hypocrisy and ruthlessness."