Молчи, Россия, молчи! Полиция не дремлет

""Odin iz nas dolzhen uekhatʹ", - skazal mne gubernator, no tak kak v gorode meni͡a li͡ubili, to gubernator ne zakhotel riskovatʹ, i uekhal i͡a", - pisal v avtobiografii Arkadiĭ Averchenko (1880 - 1925), russkiĭ pisatelʹ-satirik, redaktor zhurnala "Satirikon". Rasskazy i felʹetony Averchenko polʹzovalisʹ ogromnoĭ populi͡arnostʹi͡u v Rossii nachala XX veka. V uslovii͡akh zhestochaĭsheĭ t͡senzury emu udavalosʹ rasskazyvatʹ o takikh storonakh russkoĭ zhizni, kotorykh nelʹzi͡a bylo pokazyvatʹ bez opasenii͡a administrativnogo i polit͡seĭskogo presledovanii͡a. Dei͡atelʹnostʹ pravitelʹstva i Gosudarstvennoĭ Dumy, proizvol vlasti na vsekh urovni͡akh, vsevozmozhnye finansovye afery, - vsë ėto izobrazheno Averchenko v karikaturnom vide, zhivo, i͡arko i ostroumno. Luchshie iz ego proizvedeniĭ voshli v dannui͡u knigu.

"One of us has to leave," the governor told me, but since I was loved in the city, the governor did not want to take risks, and I left," Arkady Averchenko (1880-1925), a Russian satirical writer, editor of the magazine Satyricon, wrote in his autobiography. Averchenko's stories and feuilletons were very popular in Russia at the beginning of the XX century. Under the conditions of the most severe censorship, he managed to talk about such aspects of Russian life that could not be shown without fear of administrative and police prosecution. The activities of the government and the State Duma, the arbitrariness of the authorities at all levels, all kinds of financial scams – all this is depicted by Averchenko in a caricature form, vividly, vividly and wittily. The best of his works are included in this book.