Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, although made as Communist propaganda to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the mutiny in 1905, is an undoubted film classic. One of its sources was Constantine Feldman's ...

Ivan Gontcharoff is best known for his second novel, Oblomov. One might say, only known, but, while his output was small, he did write two other novels, some short stories ...

One of Ostrovsky’s most poetical works, The Storm is set in Kalinov, a provincial town on the banks of the Upper Volga. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Katerína is ...

Misha Poltyev, a ‘desperate character,’ squanders his inheritance, senselessly turns to drink, and lives among the beggars of the highway. Eventually, he returns to his family estate and the graveyard ...

‘That night I went home to my lodgings in a state of perfect ecstasy ... I felt supremely happy, and was already making all sorts of plans in my head. If ...

Young Muscovite bachelor Yakov Aratov lives in contented solitude, until the arrival in town of the dazzling actress Clara Militch:

‘She was all fire, all passion, and all contradiction; revengeful ...

A difficult and uncompromising short tale by the Russian master Turgenev, and four additional tales. Includes The Duellist , an early (1846) study of contrasting characters which clearly demonstrates his movement ...

Martin Petrovitch, believing he has dreamed of his own impending death, transfers ownership of his estate to his two daughters. Turgenev’s short story version of Shakespeare’s King Lear ...

Referred to by Henry James as ‘the first novelist of his time’ Ivan Turgenev’s works focus on class, love and suffering. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories with its ...

Considered to be among the world’s greatest masters of fiction Turgenev’s works explored the social issues that affected Russians during the nineteenth century, most notably the peasantry and ...

Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the great testimonies of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate ...

Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the great testimonies of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate ...

Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the great testimonies of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate ...

Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the great testimonies of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate ...

Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the great testimonies of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate ...

Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the great testimonies of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate ...

Translated by Constance Garnett Three Plays by Turgenev includes A Month in the Country , A Provincial Lady and A Poor Gentleman .

Turgenev wrote A Month in the Country in France ...

The Torrents of Spring and Other Stories was written when Turgenev was in his fifties and is considered to be partly autobiographical.

Also known as Spring Torrents , The Torrents of ...

A Sportsman’s Sketches was a collection of short stories written by Ivan Turgenev in 1852. Known also as Sketches from a Hunter’s Album or The Hunting Sketches , the ...

A Sportsman’s Sketches was a collection of short stories written by Ivan Turgenev in 1852. As Turgenev’s first major piece of writing they brought him instant recognition.

Based ...

On the Eve is set at the beginning of the Crimean War and probes the friendships and loves of Elena, a young Russian woman, and the men in her life ...

The first of Turgenev’s social novels, Rudin was first translated by Constance Garnett into English in 1894.

The main protagonist Dmitri Rudin is a representative of men of that ...

Smoke was published in 1867 and translated into English in 1896. It was written when Turgenev was based in Baden, amongst the resorts that were favoured by many Russians. The ...

First translated by Constance Garnett in 1895 Fathers and Children was published in 1862 in The Russian Messenger and provoked immediate controversy for its portrayal of the rise of the ...

A sequel to Rudin , A House of Gentlefolk was originally published in 1858 and was translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett in 1894. A quintessential Turgenev novel about Russian ...

Virgin Soil , written in 1877 and translated into English in 1896, was Ivan Turgenev’s last novel and an appropriate end to his career as a novelist. Its analysis of ...

Virgin Soil , written in 1877 and translated into English in 1896, was Ivan Turgenev’s last novel and an appropriate end to his career as a novelist. Its analysis of ...