Abroad, Ivan Turgenev is not well-known, unjustly so, since he is one of the great Russian classic writers of the 19th century. In honor of the 200th anniversary of his birth (Nov. 9), we explain why ...

On Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. Many Russian novels of ideas have adopted Turgenev’s device of describing intellectual dispute as a conflict of generations. Many Russian novels of ideas have ...

The radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator, Constance Garnett. By Jennifer Wilson Paris productions of Chekhov, Turgenev and Ostrovsky avoid current events and focus ...

Ivan Turgenev's novella First Love is one of the most perfect things ever written. It is a gesture of artistic defiance to the urgencies of the age – which demanded of an artist as Russian as Turgenev ...

In the grand tradition of awkward homecomings, the opening of Ivan Turgenev’s “Fathers and Children” holds a place of honor. It is the spring of 1859 and Arkady Kirsanov has returned to his father’s ...

This week’s issue of The New Yorker went to press and into the mails several days before the death on Tuesday of Mikhail Gorbachev. In an odd and unplanned way, however, the issue contains an essay ...

"Turgenev to me is the greatest writer there ever was, " declared Ernest Hemingway of the great Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) who painted a lyrical but vivid and convincing portrait of ...

Fifty years ago, Alfred Kazin, easily among the greatest American literary critics of the last century, published his landmark collection of selected essays, "The Inmost Leaf." His shortest essay ...

Turgenev's story of an upper-class Russian woman who falls for a Bulgarian revolutionary was controversial in its day "Is there any enthusiasm for anything left in the world? Do people still know how ...

Considered a lesser playwright to Chekhov for many years, Ivan Turgenev is finding new popularity among theatergoers, who are responding well to his passionate stories set in a changing world. Isaiah ...