Excerpted from Foolsburg: The History of a Town by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Printed by permission of Vintage Books, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. English language translation copyright © 2024 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.   — […]