Ivan Turgenev
Writing
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. Turgenev made his name with 'A Sportsman's Sketches', also known as 'Sketches from a Hunter's Album' or 'Notes of a Hunter', a collection of short stories, based on his observations of peasant life and nature, while hunting in the forests around his mother's estate of Spasskoye. The book is credited with having influenced public opinion in favour of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Turgenev himself considered the book to be his most important contribution to Russian literature. One of the stories, 'Bezhin Lea' or 'Byezhin Prairie', was to become the basis for Sergei Eisenstein's controversial film Bezhin Meadow (1937). In the early 1850s, Turgenev wrote several novellas ('The Diary of a Superfluous Man', 'Faust', 'The Lull') expressing the anxieties and hopes of Russians of his generation. During the period of 1853–62 Turgenev wrote some of his finest stories as well as the first four of his novels: 'Rudin' (1856), 'A Nest of the Gentry' (1859), 'On the Eve' (1860) and 'Fathers and Sons' (1862). Fathers and Sons remains Turgenev's most famous novel. The novel examined the conflict between the older generation, reluctant to accept reforms, and the nihilistic youth.
Known for
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movieThe Singers
2026
Short Story
movieTwo Women
2014
Theatre Play
movieMu-Mu
1998
Novel
Príživník
1988
Theatre Play
movieDream
1988
Novel
Rudin
1987
Novel
movieMu-mu
1987
Short Story
movieOn the Eve
1985
Author
movieA Month in the Country
1985
Theatre Play
Faust
1984
Short Story
Delenie majetku
1982
Theatre Play
movieRudin
1982
Author
movieLiza
1978
Novel
movieRudin
1977
Novel
movieAsya
1977
Novel
movieFantasia
1976
Novel
movieReturn
1975
Book
Mumu
1973
Short Story
tvTheatre Macabre
1971
Short Story, Novel
First Love
1971
Short Story
movieFirst Love
1970
Novel
Podzim
1970
Theatre Play
movieFortune's Fool
1970
Theatre Play
movieThe Song of Triumphant Love
1969
Short Story
movieJarní vody
1968
Novel
Zabijaka
1967
Short Story
Venkovská panička
1966
Theatre Play
movieUn mois à la campagne
1966
Theatre Play
tvTheatre 625
1964
Theatre Play
S čím kdo zachází
1964
Theatre Play
Torrents of Spring
1960
Original Story
movieOn the Eve
1959
Novel
movieMumu
1959
Book
movieThe Parasite
1953
Theatre Play
movieFaust
1919
Story
movieThe Inn
1918
Short Story
movieAfter Death
1915
Novel
movieSong of Triumphant Love
1915
Short Story
movieLieutenant Yergunov
1910
Short Story