A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2 : Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume 2

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sportsman%27s_Sketches Release date is 2005-08-01

Tatyana Borissovna and her nephew -- Death -- The singers -- Piotr Petrovitch Karataev -- The tryst -- The Hamlet of the Shtchigri District -- Tchertop-Hanov and Nedopyuskin. -- The end of Tchertop-Hanov -- A living relic -- The rattling of wheels -- The forest and the steppe.

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"A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is a cycle of short stories published in 1852. Through the eyes of a hunting narrator, these sketches reveal the lives of Russian peasants and their masters across various estates and villages. Each encounter—whether with shrewd farmers, idealistic dreamers, or corrupt officials—exposes the injustices of serfdom and the stark contrasts between nobility and peasantry. Based on Turgenev's own observations at his mother's estate, these stories blend vivid character portraits with social commentary, establishing him as a major voice in Russian realist literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Country life -- Russia -- Fiction Peasants -- Russia -- Fiction

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