A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2

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Faber & Faber, Limited, 2008 - Fiction - 290 pages
A collection of short stories that explore the difficult lives of the peasants and the Russian system of serfdom. This system came into effect during the 11th century and required the dependency of the peasants on the state. Peasants' mobility was severely restricted and it was made illegal for them to run away from the estates where they worked.

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A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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About the author (2008)

Born in Orel in central Russia in 1818 Ivan Turgenev studied at the universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Berlin and worked briefly for the civil service before turning to writing. He wrote several novels that examined the social, political and philosophical issues of the time as well as many plays and short stories. Living mainly in Baden-Baden and Paris Turgenev was acquainted with a variety of influential writers and met Dickens and Trollope among others on his travels to England. He was widely perceived to be the first major Russian writer to achieve great success in Europe. Turgenev died in Paris in 1883.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2
A Sportsman's Sketches, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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AuthorsIvan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Garnett
Translated byConstance Garnett
PublisherFaber & Faber, Limited, 2008
ISBN0571245501, 9780571245505
Length290 pages
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