Turgenev

or Tur·ge·niev

[tur-gen-yuh f, -geyn-; Russian toor-gye-nyif]

noun

I·van Ser·ge·e·vich

[ee-vahn syir-gye-yi-vyich] /iˈvɑn syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/, 1818–83, Russian novelist.

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Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.
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Yet no one would ever call Turgenev a romanticist, or Stevenson a realist.
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But it is a less tedious realism than that of Tolstoy or Turgenev.
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Turgenev had indeed roused the ire of both sides, only too surely.
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We may say that the description of love is Turgenev's speciality.
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Turgenev did not write for the masses but for the elite among men.
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British Dictionary definitions for turgenev

Turgenev

noun

Ivan Sergeyevich (iˈvan sɪrˈɡjejɪvitʃ). 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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