Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest Russian writers, was the first to achieve real fame outside his country. He spent most of his life in Western Europe and began writing letters, not only to keep his friends informed of his progress, but "to receive responses." A rare and pleasant reporter, rarely objected to the publication of his letters, written with this possibility.

This full-letter selection extends over fifty years, from 1831 until Turgenev's death in September 1883. Turgenev enjoyed conversations by mail and discussed social, political, literary, artistic and musical issues.

Among his prominent book correspondents of that day (including Flaubert, Zola, Mopasant, Henry James, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky) as well as friends and relationships. Many letters reveal his views on contemporary literary and social events in Russia and Europe.

Others, to its publishers and translators and aspiring authors, give some of its standards to the author. These characters will not provide an answer to Turgenev's mystery, but they show many aspects of this wonderful and mercurial man.

Letters in chronological sections. The CV framework is provided both by entering these sections and individual messages, and by including messages covering key events in his life.

This choice is an important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Russian and European history and literature in the 19th century. Eh Knolls is a senior lecturer in Russian at the University of Liverpool and is the editor of the Tolstoy Volume in the Critical Heritage Series..

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