Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (November 9, 1818 - September 3, 1883) - Russian writer, poet, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1860). Ivan Turgenev was born on November 9, 1818 in Orel.

Father - Sergey Nikolaevich, a retired cuirassier colonel. Mother, Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova, came from a fairly wealthy noble family. Until the age of 9, Ivan Turgenev lived in the Spasskoye-Lutovinovo estate, 10 km from Mtsensk, Oryol province. In 1827, the Turgenevs settled in Moscow to give children an education; they bought a house on Samotyok. Ivan first studied at the Weidenhammer boarding house, then he was given a boarder to the director of the Lazarevsky Institute Krause. In 1833, a 15-year-old ...