Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator, popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.

Date of birth:
28th October, 1818
Date of death:
3rd September, 1883
"Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."
― Ivan Turgenev
Topic(s): Death
"In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn’t know art, just as it doesn’t know freedom, just as it doesn’t know goodness."
― Ivan Turgenev
Topic(s): Freedom
"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."
― Ivan Turgenev
Topic(s): Sympathy
"Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?"
― Ivan Turgenev
Topic(s): Strength

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