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Portrait of Ivan Turgenev by Eugène Lami, c. 1843–1844. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (/ t ʊər ˈ ɡ ɛ n j ɛ f,-ˈ ɡ eɪ n-/ toor-GHEN-yef, - GAYN-; [1] Russian: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев [note 1], IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf]; 9 November [O.S. 28 October] 1818 – 3 September [O.S. 22 August] 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story ...
Alexander Turgenev was born in Simbirsk in 1784. His father, Ivan Petrovich Turgenev (1752-1807) was one of the most enlightened men of his time. Alexander was educated at Moscow University, where he met the poet Vasily Zhukovsky; they formed a friendship that lasted until the death of
Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Russian: Вешние воды Veshniye vody), is an 1872 novella [2] by Ivan Turgenev.It is highly autobiographical in nature, and centers on a young Russian landowner, Dimitry Sanin, who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt.
Turgenev's novel was responsible for popularizing the use of the term nihilism, which became widely used after the novel was published. [ 2 ] Fathers and Sons might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian literature ( Gogol 's Dead Souls , another main contender, was referred to by the author as a poem or epic in prose as in the ...
A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника, romanized: Zapiski ohotnika; also known as A Sportman's Notebook, The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) is an 1852 cycle of short stories by Ivan Turgenev.
His father was a poor member of the gentry and died when Rudin was still very young. He was brought up by his mother, who spent all the money she had on him, and was educated at Moscow University and abroad in Germany, at Heidelberg and Berlin (Turgenev himself studied in Berlin). When he first appears in the novel, he is described as follows ...
His long-running Saturday column — For What It’s Worth — was must-reading for Rhode Islanders.
As a result, 2,000 francs were collected to purchase books and to pay the rent for the library. In 1883, Turgenev died and the library was named after him. Despite the financial difficulties, the library's holdings kept increasing. It had 3,500 volumes in 1900, 17,000 in 1913, 50,000 in 1925, and 100,000 in 1937.