Ivan Turgenev
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- November 9, 1818
- Died
- September 3, 1883 (aged 64)
- Birthplace
- Oryol, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Oryol Oblast, Russia]
Biography
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. Turgenev made his name with 'A Sportsman's Sketches', also known as 'Sketches from a Hunter's Album' or 'Notes of a Hunter', a collection of short stories, based on his observations of peasant life and nature, while hunting in the forests around his mother's estate of Spasskoye. The book is credited with having influenced public opinion in favour of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Turgenev himself considered the book to be his most important contribution to Russian literature. One of the stories, 'Bezhin Lea' or 'Byezhin Prairie', was to become the basis for Sergei Eisenstein's controversial film Bezhin Meadow (1937). In the early 1850s, Turgenev wrote several novellas ('The Diary of a Superfluous Man', 'Faust', 'The Lull') expressing the anxieties and hopes of Russians of his generation. During the period of 1853–62 Turgenev wrote some of his finest stories as well as the first four of his novels: 'Rudin' (1856), 'A Nest of the Gentry' (1859), 'On the Eve' (1860) and 'Fathers and Sons' (1862). Fathers and Sons remains Turgenev's most famous novel. The novel examined the conflict between the older generation, reluctant to accept reforms, and the nihilistic youth.
Known For
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Filmography
The Singers
Movie · Short Story
Väter und Söhne
Movie · Novel
Two Women
Movie · Theatre Play
My First Love
Movie · Novel
Fathers and Sons
TV · Novel · 4 eps
The Husband, the Wife and the Lover
Movie · Author
Erste Liebe
Movie · Novel
All Forgotten
Movie · Novel
Mu-Mu
Movie · Novel
The First Love
Movie · Book
Torrents of Spring
Movie · Novel
Dream
Movie · Novel
Príživník
Movie · Theatre Play
Mu-mu
Movie · Short Story
Rudin
Movie · Novel
The Theater of I.S. Turgenev
Movie · Author
On the Eve
Movie · Author
Summer Lightning
Movie · Story
A Month in the Country
Movie · Theatre Play
Faust
Movie · Short Story
Fathers and Sons
Movie · Novel
A Month in the Country
Movie · Author
Nadja Yet
Movie · Book
Delenie majetku
Movie · Theatre Play
Rudin
Movie · Author
Liza
Movie · Novel
Asya
Movie · Novel
Rudin
Movie · Novel
Lone Wolf
Movie · Book
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV · Novel · 1 ep
Fantasia
Movie · Novel
Return
Movie · Book
Gnadenbrot
Movie · Short Story
El primer amor
Movie · Screenplay
Mumu
Movie · Short Story
Noc v krčme „U veľkého diviaka“
Movie · Theatre Play
A Month in the Country
Movie · Author
Notes of a Hunter
Movie · Author
Жизнь и смерть дворянина Чертопханова
Movie · Novel
Otcové a děti
Movie · Novel
A Touch of a Butterfly
Movie · Book
First Love
Movie · Short Story
Theatre Macabre
TV · Novel, Short Story · 1 ep
Podzim
Movie · Theatre Play
Fortune's Fool
Movie · Theatre Play
First Love
Movie · Novel
První láska
Movie · Novel
A Nest of Gentry
Movie · Novel
The Song of Triumphant Love
Movie · Short Story
A Provincial Lady
Movie · Author
First Love
Movie · Book
Jarní vody
Movie · Novel
A Month in the Country
Movie · Author
Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film
Movie · Short Story
Zabijaka
Movie · Short Story
Venkovská panička
Movie · Theatre Play
A Month in the Country
Movie · Theatre Play
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Movie · Book
Un mois à la campagne
Movie · Theatre Play
S čím kdo zachází
Movie · Theatre Play
The Wednesday Play
TV · Story · 1 ep
Theatre 625
TV · Theatre Play · 1 ep
Torrents of Spring
Movie · Original Story
On the Eve
Movie · Novel
Fathers and Sons
Movie · Novel
Mumu
Movie · Book
The Dream
Movie · Story
Breakfast at the Leader's
Movie · Story
The Parasite
Movie · Theatre Play
Duelo en las montañas
Movie · Novel, Screenplay
Frühlingsfluten
Movie · Book
Le chant de l'amour triomphant
Movie · Story
Three Portraits
Movie · Story
Punin and Baburin
Movie · Novel
Faust
Movie · Novel
The Inn
Movie · Short Story
Song of Triumphant Love
Movie · Short Story
After Death
Movie · Novel
Fathers and Sons
Movie · Novel
The Day Before
Movie · Book
Lieutenant Yergunov
Movie · Short Story