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Ivan Vejeeghen (Russian: Иван Выжигин, romanized: Ivan Vyzhigin) is an 1829 satirical Russian picaresque 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.

The novel is considered to be the first best-seller in Russia, outselling more literary authors such as Alexander 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.

Antisemitism

In chapter seven of the novel, Ivan encounters the dishonest rich tavern (korchma) keeper Movsha and his wife Rifka and describes the dishonesty of these persons.

References

1. ^ "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 Gil Blas' of 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.
4. John D. Klier, "Zhid": Biography of a Russian Epithet, The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan., 1982), pp. 1–15. Published by: Modern Humanities Research Association. JSTOR 4208429

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.

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