Ivan Vejeeghen
Ivan Vejeeghen is an 1829 satirical Russian picaresque novel by Thaddeus Bulgarin. It is in the form of a memoir of one Ivan Vejeeghen, a peasant orphan growing up in early 19th century Russia.
The novel is considered to be the first best-seller in Russia, outselling more literary authors such as Alexander Pushkin. The first edition sold out in seven days, and seven thousand copies before the end of the year; more than ten thousand were sold overall. By 1832 it had been translated into French, Polish, German, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and English, and was one of the first works of Russian literature to be widely read in the West.