Dmitry Grigorovich (writer)
Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich was a Russian writer, best known for his first two novels, The Village and Anton Goremyka. He was lauded as the first author to have realistically portrayed the life of the Russian rural community and openly condemn the system of serfdom.
Grigorovich in 1856; photograph by Sergey Lvovich Levitsky
Self-portrait of the young Grigorovich.
Contributors to Sovremennik: Grigorovich (top center) next to Leo Tolstoy, Bottom row: (from left) Goncharov, Turgenev, Druzhinin, and Ostrovsky. Photograph by Sergey Levitsky, 1856.
Dmitry Grigorovich in the late 1850s; photograph by Andrey Denyer
Anton-Goremyka is a novel by Dmitry Grigorovich, first published by Sovremennik, in 1847, vol. 6, issue XI. In retrospect it is regarded as arguably the strongest anti-serfdom statement in the Russian literature of its time.
Anton Goremyka