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 strong impact upon the Russian literary society and was praised for being "the first work in the Russian literature to face the real peasants life" by Ivan Turgenev.