Turgenev: A Study

If we have said nothing hitherto about the twenty years of Turgenev's life (1855-1877), in which the six great novels were composed, it is because his cosmopolitan activities, s...

lay bare the inner meaning of the book. Anonymous Russia! It was Anonymous Russia, as Turgenev saw, that had at last arisen to menace the doors which shut out Russia from politi...

A writer, Mr. Robert Lynd, has said: "It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. It is as though most of us were monot...

In addition to his six great novels Turgenev published, between 1846 and his death in 1883, about forty tales which reflect as intimately social atmospheres of the 'thirties, 'f...

At this date, 1847, Russia, long prostrate beneath the drill sergeants of that "paternal" autocrat Nicholas I.,[12] with the lynx-eyed police rule, servile press and general atm...

In 1859, three years after _Rudin_, appeared _A House of Gentlefolk_, in popular estimation the most perfect of Turgenev's works. This verdict, repeated by many critics, was gai...

While _On the Eve_ signalizes the end of the Crimea epoch and the break-up of the crushing, overwhelming régime of Nicholas, _Fathers and Children_ is a forecast of the new Libe...

The biographers tell us that Turgenev left Russia again in 1847, for the sake of being near Pauline Garcia, the famous singer (afterwards Madame Viardot), whom he adored all his...

_On the Eve_, not finished and published till 1859, but projected in 1855, and then laid aside for _Rudin_ and _A House of Gentlefolk_, holds depths of meaning which at first si...

_Smoke_ was first published in 1867, several years after Turgenev had fixed his home in Baden, with his friends the Viardots. Baden at this date was a favourite resort for all c...

"All my life is in my works," said Turgenev, and his biographers' account of his education and youth reveals how it was that from the age of twenty-three Turgenev was to become...