Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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Turgenev, by Vasily Perov, 1872
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| Born | Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev November 9, 1818 Orel, Russian Empire (now Oryol, Russian Federation) |
| Died | September 3, 1883 (aged 64) Bougival, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), France |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Novel, play, short story |
| Literary movement | Realism |
| Notable works | A Sportsman's Sketches • Fathers and Sons • A Month in the Country |
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (/tɜːrˈɡɛnjəf, -ˈɡeɪn-/;Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев; IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲeɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf]; November 9 [O.S. October 28] 1818 – September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright.
His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in Oryol to noble Russian parents Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev (1793—1834), a colonel in the Russian cavalry who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812, and Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva (née Lutovinova, 1787—1850). His father belonged to an old, but impoverished Turgenev family of Tula aristocracy that traces its history to the 15th century when a Tatar Mirza Lev Turgen (Ivan Turgenev after baptizing) left the Golden Horde to serve Vasily II of Moscow. Ivan's mother came from a wealthy noble Lutovinov house of the Oryol Governorate. She spent an unhappy childhood under the tyrannical stepfather and left his house after her mother's death to live with her uncle. At the age of 26 she inherited a huge fortune from him and married Turgenev.
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