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 ...

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 ...

Blueprint Productions presents Chekhov + Turgenev, two Russian classics presented in repertory, and scored in jazz: About Love, a musical play with songs, inspired by Ivan Turgenev's novella, "First ...

A SPORTSMAN’S NOTEBOOK (398 pp.)—Ivan Turgenev, translated by Charles and Natasha Hepburn — Chanticleer ($2). A century ago these lyrical sketches of Russian country life were considered an incendiary ...

The Russian import “Two Women” is not a remake of the 1961 Sophia Loren classic but rather a filmed adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev play “A Month In the Country.” Previous English-language productions ...

Ralph Fiennes revisits his long-shelved spurned-suitor métier in a Russian-language adaptation of an Ivan Turgenev play By Clarence Tsui Two Women Still - H 2014 Courtesy of Vladivostok ...

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. Turgenev made his name with 'A ...