On the eve of the Crimean War, young Elena Nikolayevna finds herself courted by free-spirited sculptor Pavel Shubin and straight-laced student Andrei Bersyenev. The latter introduces her to Bulgarian student revolutionary Dmitri Insarov, whom she falls in love with and secretly marries. War and fate have further plans for Elena in this 1860 novel.
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was born to the landed aristocracy. As an adult he spent most of his time in Baden-Baden, Germany and Paris, France. A contemporary and rival of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, his works include A Sportsman’s Sketches, A Month in the Country, First Love, Diary of a Superfluous Man, Torrents of Spring, Fathers and Sons and other landmarks of nineteenth-century Russian realism.