Ivan Turgenev
October 28, 1818 –September 3, 1883
Writer, Poet, Playwright, Novelist, Translator, Prose writer
Lived 64 years
- Born in
- Oryol
- Passed away in
- Bougival
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818–1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
His first major publication, a short story collection titled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism. His novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.
Notable works: A Sportsman's Sketches, Fathers and Sons, A Month in the Country, Mumu, Home of the Gentry, Poems in Prose Education: University of Berlin, Faculty of Philosophy at Saint Petersburg State University, Imperial Moscow University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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