Vasily Tyorkin (Boborykin)

Vasily Tyorkin (Russian: Василий Тёркин) is an 1892 novel by Russian writer Pyotr Boborykin a story of a businessman (kupets) with elements of coming of age, who made himself coming from a peasant family, whose father had a small candle factory. Unlike a common portrayal of nouveau riches, greedy, ruthless, uneducated, Boborykin's Tyorkin studied in a gymnasium and cares about other people and "native lands".

The novel has nothing in common with the poem Vasily Tyorkin by Soviet author Aleksandr Tvardovsky.


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