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Turgenev was the most liberal-spirited and unqualifiedly humane of all the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, and in Virgin Soil , his biggest and most ambitious work, he sought to balance his deep affection for his country and his people with his growing apprehensions... Read Full Overview

Turgenev's final novel, Virgin Soil traces the destinies of several middle-class revolutionaries who seek to "go to the people" by working on the land and instilling democratic ideas in the countryside's locals. They include the daydreaming impoverished young tutor Nezhdanov... Read Full Overview

Virgin Soil is an 1877 novel by Ivan Turgenev. It was Turgenev's sixth and final novel as well as his longest and most ambitious. The novel centres on a depiction of some of the young people in late nineteenth century Russia who decided to reject the standard cultural mores of... Read Full Overview

Turgenev was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret modern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which many English readers were destined to make... Read Full Overview

Turgenev was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret modern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which many English readers were destined to make... Read Full Overview

Turgenev was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough for it, to interpret modern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which many English readers were destined to make... Read Full Overview

VIRGIN SOIL by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is his last and longest novel. In it he finally says everything yet unsaid on the subject of social change, idealism and yet futility of revolutions, serfs and peasants, and the upper classes. The hero, Nezhdanov -- the disillusioned... Read Full Overview

Nell'estate del 1874, centinaia di studenti e di intellettuali - i cosiddetti narodniki (populisti) - decisero di mescolarsi a contadini e operai, di indossare le loro vesti, guadagnarsi la loro fiducia e istruirli, prepararli alla lotta e al riscatto sociale contro l'autocrazia... Read Full Overview

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of... Read Full Overview

Ivan Turgenev (Or l, 9 novembre 1818 - Bougival, 3 settembre 1883) stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo russo. La data di nascita il 28 ottobre, secondo il calendario giuliano in vigore all'epoca. Il suo romanzo Padri e figli considerato uno dei capolavori della narrativa... Read Full Overview

Set in 19th century Russia, Virgin Soil is a timeless story of political intrigue, romance, and social commentary. It tells the story of a group of young radicals who seek to overthrow the established order and create a new society, and the obstacles they face along the way... Read Full Overview

Set in 19th century Russia, Virgin Soil is a timeless story of political intrigue, romance, and social commentary. It tells the story of a group of young radicals who seek to overthrow the established order and create a new society, and the obstacles they face along the way... Read Full Overview