Russian Gil Blas. Book One : Kniga pervaya

VT Narezhny (1780-1825), author of sharp, revealing moral and satirical novels, continued the tradition of Russian Enlightenment of the XVIII century, the writers of the satirical direction Novikov, Fonvizin, Radishcheva while he was the founder of the hudozhestvennoy school, which received its highest development the work of the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.