The building of the former Penza Treasury Chamber on Belinsky Street, 8 is known not only as an architectural monument of federal significance. It was once headed by the writer Saltykov-Shchedrin, who sometimes enjoyed teasing his subordinates. One evening, while strolling along the Line of Presence, he noticed light in the windows of the Treasury Chamber. Ascending to the second floor, Saltykov-Shchedrin saw that the scribe had fallen asleep at his desk. The clerk was tired and had unknowingly dozed off right over the papers. Mikhail Yevgrafovich felt sorry for him and did not wake him. Instead, he carefully removed the documents from under the sleeping man's arm and, while he slept, completed all the reports, sending them to St. Petersburg. However, the problem was that the secretary had a calligraphic handwriting, while Saltykov-Shchedrin wrote illegibly. A couple of weeks later, a stern letter arrived from the capital demanding the dismissal of the scribe for his illegible scrawls. The unsuspecting worker pleaded with Saltykov-Shchedrin to keep him in service. To the writer's credit, he confessed to his actions and wrote a response letter to St. Petersburg, suggesting that he be dismissed instead, as he was the one who had done the secretary's work. Fortunately, the incident had no consequences, but rumors circulated that since then, the employees of the Treasury Chamber tried not to fall asleep on the job.