Home of the Gentry
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of “Sovremennik”. It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky in 1969.,,The novel’s protagonist is Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobl….Read More
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