Ivan Vejeeghen

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1829 Russian edition of Ivan Vejeeghen

Ivan Vejeeghen (Russian: Иван Выжигин) is an 1829 satirical Russian novel by Thaddeus Bulgarin. It is in the form of a memoir of one Ivan Vejeeghen (or Vyzhigin), a peasant orphan growing up in early 19th century Russia. [1]

The novel is considered to be the first best-seller in Russia, outselling more literary authors such as Pushkin. The first edition sold out in seven days, and seven thousand copies before the end of the year; more than ten thousand were sold overall. By 1832 it had been translated into French, Polish, German, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and English (an English version was published London in 1831 and in Philadelphia in 1832), and was one of the first works of Russian literature to be widely read in the West.[1][2][3]

Further reading

  • Ivan Vejeeghen, volume one at the Internet Archive
  • Ivan Vejeeghen, volume two at the Internet Archive
  • Bulgarin, Thaddeus (2018). Ivan Vejeeghen, Or, Life in Russia (facsimile reprint). Translated by G. Ross. Patala Press. ISBN 978-1377547398.

References

  1. ^ a b "Ivan Vejeeghen, or, Life in Russia". Archives & Special Collections, Waidner-Spahr Library, Dickinson College. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  2. ^ Ronald Leblanc (1999). "'Русский Жилблаз' Фаддея Булгарина" ['Russian Zhilblaz', Thaddeus Bulgarin]. New Literary Review (НЛО) (in Russian). Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  3. ^ "Электронная книга Иван Иванович Выжигин" [E-book Ivan Ivanovich Vyzhigin]. Librebook.me (in Russian). Retrieved June 15, 2020.


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