The Village (Grigorovich novel)
Village Girl by Rafail Levitsky | |
| Author | Dmitry Grigorovich |
|---|---|
| Original title | Деревня |
| Language | Russian |
| Publisher | Otechestvennye Zapiski |
Publication date | 1846 |
| Publication place | Russian Empire |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Followed by | Anton Goremyka |
The Village (Russian: Деревня, romanized: Derevnya) was the debut novel of Dmitry Grigorovich, first published by Otechestvennye Zapiski (Vol. XLIX, book 12) in 1846. It had a strong impact on Russian literary society, and was praised for being "the first work in the Russian literature to face the real peasant's life" by Ivan Turgenev.