person
Faddei Bulgarin
Bulgarin
also: Булгарин
Faddei Bulgarin (1789-1859), a prolific and widely disliked journalist and novelist notorious for police informing; Ivan Nikitich boasts of having once needled him in print.
Reading notes
- The Correspondent §47 Bulgarin
Faddei Bulgarin (1789-1859), a prolific, politically reactionary journalist and novelist notorious among the Russian literary establishment for informing to the secret police -- Belinsky's great antagonist, so claiming to have 'pinched' him is claiming a place in a famous literary feud.