The story is about a regiment of cuirassiers who are stationed in the village of Kirilovo, in the K province. The village is an island in a sea of ploughed, black-earth fields. The owner of the manor-house where the regiment is quartered lives partly at Petersburg and partly abroad and has completely forgotten his estate. The social life of the...More
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev(November 9 [O.S. October 28] , 1818 – September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism. His novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.
Turgenev's artistic purity made him a favorite of like-minded novelists of the next generation, such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad, both of whom greatly preferred Turgenev to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. James, who wrote no fewer than five critical essays on Turgenev's work, claimed that "his merit of form is...More
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev(November 9 [O.S. October 28] , 1818 – September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism. His novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.
Turgenev's artistic purity made him a favorite of like-minded novelists of the next generation, such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad, both of whom greatly preferred Turgenev to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. James, who wrote no fewer than five critical essays on Turgenev's work, claimed that "his merit of form is of the first order" (1873) and praised his "exquisite delicacy", which "makes too many of his rivals appear to hold us, in comparison, by violent means, and introduce us, in comparison, to vulgar things" (1896)
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The story is about a regiment of cuirassiers who are stationed in the village of Kirilovo, in the K province. The village is an island in a sea of ploughed, black-earth fields. The owner of the manor-house where the regiment is quartered lives partly at Petersburg and partly abroad and has completely forgotten his estate. The social life of the officers is typical, with some being good people and some being bad. One officer, Avdey Ivanovitch Lutchkov, has a reputation as a duellist. A young cornet, Fyodor Fedorovitch Kister, joins the regiment. He is a Russian nobleman of German extraction, very fair-haired and very modest, cultivated and well read...
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