Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia is a 1785 novel about a fictional German nobleman written by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe.

[1][2][3] The lead character Baron Munchausen is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720–1797, German pronunciation: [ˈmʏnç(h)aʊzən]).

[4] The novel was the basis of the 1988 film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

[5] An eighteenth-century German nobleman, Baron Munchausen, experiences a series of amazing adventures.

He arrives at the Turkish royal court, where he meets the Sultan, steals his whole treasury, and sails away from Turkey.