The Village (Grigorovich novel)

The Village
Village Girl by Rafail Levitsky
AuthorDmitry Grigorovich
Original titleДеревня
LanguageRussian
PublisherOtechestvennye Zapiski
Publication date
1846
Publication placeRussian Empire
Media typeprint (Hardback & Paperback)
Followed byAnton 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.