Virgin Soil: Young Radicals Go to the People
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A young man of good education and no settled convictions is drawn into the movement to go among the peasants and rouse them, and finds the peasants uninterested and himself unequal to the work. Turgenev's last novel, written from Paris and attacked in Russia from both left and right. It is the coldest and most accurate thing he wrote about his own country. Sixty plates of Russian painting by Repin and Perov, from peasant gatherings to tea parties outside Moscow, supply the visual world Turgenev's radicals failed to reach.
A young man of good education and no settled convictions is drawn into the movement to go among the peasants and rouse them, and finds the peasants uninterested and himself unequal to the work. Turgenev's last novel, written from Paris and attacked in Russia from both left and right. It is the co...
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Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist born in Oryol to a wealthy landowning family. His Sportsman's Sketches is credited with influencing the emancipation of the serfs; he spent much of his life in France, close to Flaubert and the Viardots, and quarrelled famously with Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. His works include A Sportsman's Sketches, Fathers and Sons, Rudin, and First Love.
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist born in Oryol to a wealthy landowning family. His Sportsman's Sketches is credited with influencing the emancipation of the serfs; he spent much of his life in France, close to Flaubert and the Viardots, and quarrelled famously with Tolstoy and Dos...
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