Faddei Venediktovich Bulgarin

1 September] 1859), born Jan Tadeusz Krzysztof Bułharyn, was a Russian writer, journalist and publisher of Polish ancestry.

[1] Bulgarin was born in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, to a noble family in the Pereszewo manor, Minsk Voivodeship (near the modern village of Pyrašava [be], Belarus), as a son of Benedykt and Aniela née Buczyńska.

[3] For one of the satires on the chief of the regiment, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, he spent several months under arrest in the Kronstadt Fortress.

[3] He significantly developed his literary and publishing activities in Saint Petersburg, where he went in 1819 and made friends with the leading local writers.

[3] In 1820, Bulgarin travelled from Warsaw to St. Petersburg, where he published a critical review of Polish literature and started editing The Northern Archive.

The latter helped him to edit the newspaper Northern Bee (1825–1839), the literary journal Fatherland's Son (1825–1859), and other reactionary periodicals.

The leading Russian poets Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov devoted critical epigrams to Bulgarin.

Inspired by Sir Walter Scott, Bulgarin wrote the Vejeeghen (Vyzhigin) series of historical novels, which used to be popular in Russia and abroad.

[9] In 1837 he published under his own name a lengthy description of Imperial Russia,[10] although much of the work was actually by Nikolai Alexeyevich Ivanov, then a Ph.D. student at Dorpat University.

After Nicholas I's death, Bulgarin retired from the department of stud farms, in which he had been serving for many years, and withdrew to his manor in Karlova (Karlowa in German) a suburb of Tartu at the time, but now incorporated within the city.