Faddei Venediktovich Bulgarin

Faddei Venediktovich Bulgarin (Russian: Фаддей Венедиктович Булгарин; 5 July [O.S. 24 June] 1789 – 13 September [O.S. 1 September] 1859), born Jan Tadeusz Krzysztof Bułharyn, was a Russian writer, journalist and publisher of Polish ancestry. In addition to his newspaper work, he rejuvenated the Russian novel, and published the first theatrical almanac in Russian. During his life, his novels were translated and published in English, French, German, Swedish, Polish, and Czech. He served as a soldier under Napoleon, and in later life as an agent of the Czar's secret police.^[1]

^ The secret police were known as the Third Department of the Personal Office of His Imperial Majesty, and were later replaced by the Okhrana. Рейтблат, А. И., ed. (1998). Видок Фиглярин: Письма и агентурные записки Ф. В. Булгарина в III отделение [Vidok Figlyarin: Letters and Agent's Notes of F. V. Bulgarin to the Third Department]. Moscow: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО). ISBN 978-5-86793-044-8. "Фиглярин" was a derogatory play on words from Bulgarin's first name and "фигляр" a jester or clown. This play on words was first made by the poet Vyazemsky, and immortalized in an epigram by Yevgeny Baratynsky, published in 1827. Набоков, Владимир Владимирович. "Комментарий к роману Евгений Онегин" [Commentary on the novel Eugene Onegin] (in Russian).

[1] The secret police were known as the Third Department of the Personal Office of His Imperial Majesty, and were later replaced by the Okhrana. Рейтблат, А. И., ed. (1998). Видок Фиглярин: Письма и агентурные записки Ф. В. Булгарина в III отделение [Vidok Figlyarin: Letters and Agent's Notes of F. V. Bulgarin to the Third Department]. Moscow: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО). ISBN 978-5-86793-044-8. "Фиглярин" was a derogatory play on words from Bulgarin's first name and "фигляр" a jester or clown. This play on words was first made by the poet Vyazemsky, and immortalized in an epigram by Yevgeny Baratynsky, published in 1827. Набоков, Владимир Владимирович. "Комментарий к роману Евгений Онегин" [Commentary on the novel Eugene Onegin] (in Russian).

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