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'The Bear in the Voivodeship' is one of the 'adult' fairy tales by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, a famous Russian writer of the 19th century, published in 1886. It consists of three short stories, which are a parody of a historical chronicle. Three voivodes Toptygins dreamed of holding out as long as possible at authorities, but the outcome was the same for everyone.