These names: Charles Perrault, Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Hauff, Hans Christian Andersen are well known to everyone from early childhood. All over the ...

“Poems in Prose” are philosophical reflections on the basic questions of existence: life and death, friendship and love, truth and lies. For high school age....

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883) spent his early years on the estate of his mother, V.P. Lutovinova, in the village of Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, Oryol provin...

“It was in St. Petersburg, in winter, on the first day of Maslenitsa. I was invited to dinner by one of my boarding house comrades, who in his youth was know...

But good deeds do not go up in smoke; they last longer than the most radiant beauty...I. S. Turgenev’s impeccable literary skill correlates with an equally i...

“Two Friends” is a work by the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. In his work, he reveals the theme of the Russian intelligentsia and peasant life, and is a...

A touching, tender and unusually lyrical story “Spring Waters” is dedicated to the theme of finding and losing true love and its collision with “dark”, irrat...

“Neighborhood” is one of the most important troubles of village life. I knew one Vologda landowner who, at every opportunity, repeated the following words: “...

Having begun his literary career as a writer of the “natural school,” Turgenev, in the story “The Calm,” continued the fight against false romanticism, culti...

“I was returning from hunting and walked along the garden alley. The dog ran ahead of me..."

In this book you will read stories about the first love of the wonderful Russian writer I.S. Turgenev.

The creation of the essay “Fire at Sea” was separated from the event described in it by forty-five years. Turgenev left St. Petersburg for Germany on the ste...