Works Of Thaddeus Bulgarin. Volume four, part 7 and 8.

Works Of Thaddeus Bulgarin. Volume four, part 7 and 8.
SPb. In the printing house of N. Grech. 1828, 161, 275 p., Fig. Size 11.5 x 15 cm. Good condition. Seals, the spine comes off. The front cover of the hardcover is lost, the back leaves the block, with a pasted ex-libris of the Antique book trade of V. I. Klochkov in St. Petersburg. R

Thaddeus Venediktovich Bulgarin (born Jan Tadeusz Krzysztof Bulgarin, Polish. Jan Tadeusz Krzysztof Bułharyn; June 24 [July 5] 1789, Peryshevo estate, Minsk Voivodeship, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, now-uzdensky district of Minsk region — September 1 [13] 1859, Karlov estate, Dorpat County, Livonia province) — Russian writer of Polish origin, journalist, critic and publisher. Captain of the Napoleonic army, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France, full state councillor; "hero" of numerous epigrams by Pushkin, Vyazemsky, Baratynsky, Lermontov, Nekrasov and many others.

The founder of the genres of adventurous picaresque novel, fantasy novel in Russian literature, the author of feuilletons and moral essays, the publisher of the first theatrical almanac in Russia. His novels, in which he acted as an ideologue of the Russian bourgeoisie, were translated into French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, and Czech during his lifetime.