Ivan Turgenev | Brief Biography
Ivan Turgenev | Brief Biography
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who was a major figure in 19th-century Russian literature. He was born into a wealthy landowning family in the province of Oryol and was educated in Russia, France, and Germany. Turgenev is best known for his novels, including “Fathers and Sons” (1862), which is considered one of the greatest works of 19th-century Russian literature and is credited with establishing the tradition of Russian realist fiction.
Turgenev’s works often dealt with themes of social and political change, as well as personal relationships, and he is considered a pioneer of psychological realism in Russian literature. In addition to his novels, he wrote several plays, including “A Month in the Country” (1850), which is considered one of the greatest works of Russian drama.
Turgenev was a prominent member of the literary circles of St. Petersburg and was friends with many of the leading literary figures of his day, including Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Gogol, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. He was also politically active and was a member of the liberal intelligentsia, who were critical of the Tsarist regime and sought to bring about political and social change.
Throughout his life, Turgenev suffered from ill health, including several serious lung infections, and he spent much of his later years traveling in Europe and Russia. He died in Bougival, France, in 1883, and was buried in St. Petersburg. Today, Turgenev is remembered as one of the greatest writers of 19th-century Russia, and his works continue to be widely read and studied. 0 0 0.
N.B. The article originally belongs to the book ‘Introduction to Men of Letters‘ by Menonim Menonimus.
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