Ivan Turgenev is probably the least known of the Russian trio of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev but nonetheless you should read him if you want to boast that you’ve read ‘the Russians’.

Sketches from a Hunter’s Album is a lesser known work of this lesser known Russian, written before his big novel

Like a lot of my five-star books, this one has significance to me that extends beyond the words on the page. Years ago I got to talking about books with a really beautiful bartender at the old San Francisco Brewing Company. I said how I hadn't read much of the Russians (echoing something Ezra Pound

Death doesn’t come running, but you can’t run away from it, neither; nor must you be helping it along.

These stories were remarkable. Each of them offered a bucolic resonance. Contemporary themes abound as modernity, liberal reform and the sanctity of the soil are explored with the serf standing as e

75th book of 2022. Artist for this review is Russian painter Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898)

4.5. Delightful stuff. Turgenev's Sketches is a collection of 25 stories surrounding the landscape of 19th century Russia and the serfs and hunters he encounters on his own trips hunting. This is my fourth Turgenev

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ایوان تورگنیف یکی از سرآمدان عرصه نویسندگی روسیه به شمار می‌رود چرا که اولین نویسنده روس است که به طور جدی در اروپا حاضر و آثارش به چند زبان ترجمه شد. این در حالی است که او فاصله چندانی با نسل اول نویسندگان بزرگ روسیه، یعنی پوشکین و گوگول ندارد. او زیر نظر دوست نزدیک پوشکین، پلتنیوف، تحصیل کرد و در

"Reading this first work of Turgenev's I tried as far as possible to prolong my enjoyment, often laying the book down on my knees; I rejoiced the naive customs and charming pictures of which I was given a delightful collection in each of the stories of this book..."
- Alphonse de Lamartine

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