Ivan turgenev

Ivan Turgenev, 1818-1883, Russia. Key works: A Provincial Lady (1851); Fortune's Fool (1857); A Month in the Country (1855).

Ivan Turgenev’s 1860 novella charts the course of a 16-year old boy’s infatuation with the princess next door in the summer of 1833, while on holiday at the family dacha just outside Moscow. What …

Ivan Turgenev

The first of the great Russian realist writers to achieve popularity abroad was Ivan Turgenev. His most famous work, "Fathers and Sons," was published in 1862. It is actually Fathers and Children in the original Russian, Отцы и дети,but translators have a point in rendering the title as they have, since the novel treats relationships between fathers and sons, and not between fathers and daughters. The time of the open-ended novel had not yet quite begun in Russian literature when Turgenev…

Ivan Turgenev was a Russian writer-realist, poet, essayist, playwright, and translator, Honorary Doctor of the Oxford University. He is one of the classics

Can you believe the illustration above was created using a sharp knife? Neither could I. Scratchboard or scraperboard is a technique where drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etch…