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Bookmark or Share- Ivan Turgenev - New World EncyclopediaIvan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев) (November 9, 1818 – September 3, 1883) was a Russian realistic novelist, poet, and playwright. A social reformer, Turgenev occupied an uneasy position between old-guard Tsarist rule and increasingly fashionable political radicalism.
- Analysis of Ivan Turgenev’s Stories - Literary Theory and CriticismThe reputation of Ivan Turgenev (October 28, 1818 – September 3, 1883) as a short-story writer is based in equal measure on his stories about Russian peasant life and on stories about other segments of society.
- Ivan Turgenev | Biography & Facts | BritannicaIvan Turgenev (born October 28 [November 9, New Style], 1818, Oryol, Russia—died August 22 [September 3], 1883, Bougival, near Paris, France) was a Russian novelist, poet, and playwright whose major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860 ...
- Ivan Turgenev, Realism, 19th Century - BritannicaThe first Russian writer to be widely celebrated in the West, Turgenev managed to be hated by the radicals as well as by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky for his dedicated Westernism, bland liberalism, aesthetic elegance, and tendency to nostalgia and self-pity.
- Ivan Turgenev - Russian Novelist, Exile, Realism | BritannicaEmeritus Professor of Russian Literature, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Author of Turgenev, a Study and others.
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