An Unhappy Girl
The narrator’s friendship with Fústov, a student living in Moscow, allows him to meet the young Susanna and gain access to the notebook in which she has written her dramatic life story, from childhood up to...
TURGENEV, Iván (aka Turgueniev, Turguenev)
Rudin
Turgenev's first novel, it is a finished portrait of the superfluous man, a recurring theme in 19th century Russian literature.
Spring torrents
Dimitri Sanin is a young Russian man from a humble background who travels to Frankfurt. In this city he falls in love with Gemma, who is already engaged. Despite the social gap, Dimitri decides to work in...
Home of the Gentry
The author's second book, with autobiographical features, which deals with the Russian rural nobility of the nineteenth century and their dilemmas. Lavrietski is the hero of the story: a young nobleman,...
A Sportsman's Sketches // Sketches from a Hunter's Album
One of the author's first writings. The book is a collection of short stories, written in the perspective of a hunter who travels through rural Russia in the first half of the 19th century, describing the...
Fathers and Sons
The novel is located in rural Russia on the 19th century, and is centered on the theme of intergenerational conflicts. Two scholars return from the university at Saint Petersburg to the countryside to visit...