First Love is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, first published in 1860. It is one of his most popular pieces of short fiction. It tells the love story between a 21-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy. First Love was published in March 1860 in the Reader’s Library. Like many of Turgenev’s works, this one is highly autobiographical. Indeed,
[...]“Mumu” is the psychological story of Ivan Turgenev about the deaf-mute janitor Gerasim, who, due to the whim of his lady, was forced to part with his beloved and drown his only friend – a dog. The author sympathizes with the simple and kind Gerasim, and his mistress portrays tough, cynical and capricious. Other famous works, such as «Asya»
[...]The short story “The District Doctor” by Ivan Turgenev belongs to the genre of narrative. The author caught a cold and invited the district physician to his hotel. After some medical procedures were completed, the main characters had a frank conversation during which the district doctor told the story of his life. The author said «I am going
[...]Реакционные круги русского общества, крайне озлобленные появлением романа «Дым» восприняли «Странную историю» как продолжение начатого, по их мнению, писателем в романе холодного
[...]«Комната, довольно порядочно убранная. На кровати за ширмами почивает Тимофей Петрович Жазиков. Входит
[...]К 17 февраля 1877 г. Тургенев завершил перевод «Легенды о св. Юлиане Милостивом» Флобера и начал переводить другую его легенду – «Иродиада». Параллельно с переводами этих колоритных
[...]“This audiobook collects a magnificent set of works by Russian classical authors: Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, Leonid Andreyev, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Turgenev,, Aleksandr Kuprin. Each original story, springing from a common creative heritage, delivers a glimpse of the
[...]10 Great Russian Short Story. The Russian short stories that will make a vivid impression on a person: The Mantle by Nikolai Gogol, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy, Darkness by Anton Chekhov, The Avenger by Anton Chekhov, A Troublesome
[...]«…Иванов, как самобытная русская натура, ближе и сильнее говорит молодым русским сердцам: он им и понятнее и дороже; а во-вторых, в том-то и состоит его великая заслуга, заслуга идеалиста,
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