Contemporaries
Ivan Turgenev
Literature · social thought
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- 1843–1883
A novelist and playwright whose works include A Sportsman’s Sketches, Home of the Gentry and Fathers and Sons. His fiction explored peasant and noble life, generational conflict and new social ideas. Turgenev favoured gradual reform in Russia and debated revolutionary thinkers. Living for many years in France and Germany, he maintained close connections with European writers and gained an international reputation during his lifetime.
- Lifetime
- 1818–1883
- Major works
- A Sportsman’s Sketches (collected edition 1852); Fathers and Sons (1862)
- Period shown
- From the poem Parasha (1843) to his final works and death in 1883.