Ivan Vyzhigin: A Moral-Satirical Novel

by Faddei Bulgarin

With his translation, Michael R. Katz makes available the first bestselling novel in Russia, Faddei Bulgarin's social satire, Ivan Vyzhigin (1829). The novel is an amusing picaresque filled with local color and comical portraits, narrated by its hero, an orphaned peasant who relates his many adventures as a young man. The book is remarkable for its accurate descriptions of nineteenth-century Russian day-to-day reality:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501782614
• ISBN13: 9781501782619
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.