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Turgenev

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Tur·ge·nev  (tr-gnyf, -gn-, tr-gynyf), Ivan Sergeevich 1818-1883.
Russian writer whose works include the collection of stories A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), plays, such as A Month in the Country (1850), and novels, most notably Fathers and Sons (1862).
Turgenev (Russian) [turˈgjenɪf]
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(Biographies / Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich (1818-1883) M, Russian, WRITING: novelist, THEATRE: dramatist) Ivan Sergeyevich (iˈvan sɪrˈgjejɪvitʃ). 1818-83, Russian novelist and dramatist. In A Sportsman's Sketches (1852) he pleaded for the abolition of serfdom. His novels, such as Rudin (1856) and Fathers and Sons (1862), are noted for their portrayal of country life and of the Russian intelligentsia. His plays include A Month in the Country (1850)
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Noun1.TurgenevTurgenev - Russian writer of stories and novels and plays (1818-1883)
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Ivan Turgenev


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At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truthlike and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state.
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