biography
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Turgenev, Ivan (Sergeyevich)
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pronunciation:
[toorgyaynyef]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1818–83)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Orel, W Russia. He studied at St Petersburg and Berlin universities, and joined the Russian civil service in 1841, but in 1843 abandoned this to take up literature. His first studies of peasant life, Sportsman's Sketches (1852, trans title), made his reputation, but earned governmental ill favour. He was banished for two years to his country estates, and then lived mainly in Germany and France. His greatest novel, Fathers and Sons (1862, trans title), was badly received in Russia, but a particular success in England. He also wrote poetry, plays (of which A Month in the Country (1855) is the best known), short stories, and tales of the supernatural. |
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