“Жизнь Ласарильо с Тормеса” и его русский перевод XVIII века

The article is devoted to the first published translation into Russian of the Spanish picaresque novel "The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities", authored by the serf writer V.G. Voroblevsky (1730-1797). The conducted historical-comparative, book-study and linguistic analysis of the texts of the Spanish original, the French mediator text and the Russian translation allows the author of the article to identify the year of the first publication of the translation in Russia (1777). The original source of the translation was also established - the Brussels edition of 1698. The version about the existence of a 1792 publication under the title “Terpigorev...” is examined separately. Linguistic analysis of the translation by V.G. Voroblevsky makes it possible to identify a whole series of structural, semantic and stylistic entities that characterize him as the most important milestone in the history of Russian-Spanish literary relations of the 18th century.