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  2. Ivan Turgenev - Wikipedia

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    Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in Oryol (modern-day Oryol Oblast, Russia) to noble Russian parents Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev (1793–1834), a colonel in the Russian cavalry who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812, and Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva (née Lutovinova; 1787–1850). His father belonged to an old, but impoverished Turgenev ...

  3. Torrents of Spring - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. A Sportsman's Sketches - Wikipedia

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    A Sportsman's Sketches at Wikisource. 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. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition.

  5. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    The Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote in 1861, "The drawing shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book." The quote is sometimes attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who said "A good sketch is better than a long speech" (French: Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours). This is sometimes translated today as "A ...

  6. Fathers and Sons (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Fathers and Sons. (novel) Fathers and Sons ( Russian: «Отцы и дети»; Otcy i deti, IPA: [ɐˈtsɨ i ˈdʲetʲi]; pre-1918 spelling Отцы и дѣти), literally Fathers and Children, is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, published in Moscow by Grachev & Co. [ 1] It is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century.

  7. Girl with Peaches - Wikipedia

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    Girl with Peaches. Girl with Peaches ( Russian: Девочка с персиками, romanized : Devochka s Persikami) is an 1887 painting by the Russian painter Valentin Serov. [2] It is considered to be one of Serov's greatest works [3] [4] and one of his most famous. [5] [6] Serov's friend and biographer, Russian art historian Igor Grabar ...

  8. Russian literature - Wikipedia

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    1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book.. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, [6] or pre-Petrian literature, [7] to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization.

  9. Category:Works by Ivan Turgenev - Wikipedia

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    A Sportsman's Sketches. Categories: Ivan Turgenev. Works by Russian writers.

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