Vasily Alekseyevich Lyovshin (; July 17, 1746 – August 10, 1826) was a Russian writer. Born in

Smolensk Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest cities in Russia. It has been a regional capital for most of ...

, he wrote on agricultural and economic subjects and was close to

Nikolay Novikov Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov (; , Moscow Governorate – Moscow Governorate) was a Russian writer and philanthropy, philanthropist most representative of his country's Russian Enlightenment, Enlightenment. Frequently considered to be the first Russ ...

's circle. Lyovshin's

utopia A utopia ( ) typically describes an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book ''Utopia (book), Utopia'', which describes a fictiona ...

n novel ''Noveysheye Рuteshestviye'' (The Newest Voyage, 1784) contains the first Russian flight to the

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* * Male writers from the Russian Empire 1746 births People from Smolensk 1826 deaths Russian food writers {{russia-writer-stub