Vasily Narezhny

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Vasily Trofimovich Narezhny (Russian: Василий Трофимович Нарежный) (1780—July 3 [O.S. June 21] 1825) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer renowned for his satiricial depiction of provincial mores in the vein of the 18th-century picaresque novel. His most famous novel is A Russian Gil Blas (1814), a rather coarse imitation of Lesage's work. The earthy, humorous realism of this novel established him as the chief predecessor of Gogol in the Russian literature. Narezhny's rough, vernacular Russian contrasted sharply with the sensitivity and musicality of the Karamzin school's Gallicized language.^[1] His last work, The Divinity Student (1824), is a romance about the adventures of a hetman's son.