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Turgenev worked on the story from July to November 1857. The idea came from a scene he saw in the German town of Sinzig - an elderly woman looking out of a window on the first floor, and the head of a young girl in the window above. Turgenev tried to imagine the fate of these people and came up with the idea for "Asya". [2]
Turgenev had long meditated On the Eve, wishing to represent a new type of idealistic but self-sacrificing heroine whom he eventually embodied in Elena.Following its long gestation, the book was written in a few months and first appeared in 1859 in the Moscow magazine The Russian Messenger, where it aroused interest but not universal approval.
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 writer ...
First Love was published in March 1860 in the Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya magazine. The author claimed it was the most autobiographical of all his works. [1] Here Turgenev is retelling an incident from his own life, his infatuation with a young neighbor in the country, Princess Catherine Shakhovskoy (the Zinaida of the novella), an infatuation that lasted until his discovery that Catherine was in ...
Faust (Russian: Фауст, Faust) is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, written in 1856 and published in the October issue of the Sovremennik magazine in the same year. [1] The story draws inspiration from Goethe's Faust, both as a tangible book around which the narrative revolves, and thematically.
A Month in the Country (Russian: Месяц в деревне, romanized: Mesiats v derevne) is a play in five acts by Ivan Turgenev, his only well-known work for the theatre. [1] Originally titled The Student , it was written in France between 1848 and 1850 and first published in 1855 as Two Women .
The young people met at the Bakunin estate, in Moscow, in Tver, but Turgenev's image in this story is, in Chalmayev's words, "somewhat hazy". [10] Ivan Sergeevich was three years younger than Tatyana, and her attitude towards him had the intonation of an older sister who was used to patronising and caring. [4]
She falls in love with her invalid cousin Robert, who introduces her to the works of great Russian writers (including Ivan Turgenev). She eventually goes mad and structures her life around preserving the existence of Robert to the finest detail possible, including re-creating his room and possessions in her attic.