Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was born in Orel into a noble family and grew up on his mother's estate of Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, under the authority of an educated and despotic mother. His stories of peasant life, collected in 1852, marked a date in Russian realism. He afterwards lived mostly outside Russia, in Baden-Baden and then in Paris, close to the family of the singer Pauline Viardot. He never married and died at Bougival, near Paris.

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• NarrativeFirst LoveПервая любовьIvan Turgenev · 1860LiteraturePublic domain