This collection includes the novel "On the Eve" and the story "Spring Waters" - two wonderful stories about love. In the novel “On the Eve”, a young aristocrat from a wealthy family is ready without hesitation to break with her family, society and homeland in order to follow her lover, a Bulgarian who is ready to give his life for the liberation of his homeland from Turkish rule.In the story “Spring Waters "A young man traveling around Europe has to make a fateful choice between a pure and bright feeling for a beautiful bride and a dark, magical passion for a predatory" fatal woman ".Even contemporaries admired Turgenev's talent to write about love cleverly subtly, lyrically, but without cloying sentimentality - and this talent, striking and attracting the modern reader, fully fills the works included in the collection.