Biography of Friends of Turgenev

Father, Sergey Nikolaevich Turgenev, belonged to the old noble family, mother, Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova - a rich landowner; In her estate, Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, Mtsensky district of the Oryol province, passed the childhood years of the future writer, who learned to subtly feel nature and hate serfdom, the family moves to Moscow; Turgenev is studying at a boarding house at the Lazarevsky Institute for 6 years and have good home teachers to enter the verbal department of Moscow University, but studied only a year.

During this time, he met Griboedov, Stankevich, studied simultaneously with Herzen, Belinsky, Lermontov, Goncharov. One of the strongest impressions of early youth is love in Princess E. Pletnev; He invites the student to a literary evening at the door of Turgenev collided with A. Pushkin in May Turgenev goes to Germany and continues to study the philosophy at the University of Berlin, the desire to replenish education was combined with the rejection of the Russian way of law based on serfdom.

Turgenev lives in Berlin before Agusta, listens to lectures at the university, engages in classic languages, writes poetry, communicates with T. N. Granovsky, having arrived in Russia, he visits the Bakunin Wishino estate, converges with this family: soon a romance with T. Bakunina begins, which does not interfere with the connection with the seamstress of A. Ivanova in her will give birth to Turgenev’s daughter Pelagey Bakunin became the prototype of Rudin.

All funds of Turgenev were given to this family. Acquaintance with the critic, who converted into friendship in Turgenev, became the godfather of his son, rapprochement with his surroundings in particular, with N. Annenkov, A. Herzen, gets acquainted with J. Sand, P. Merima, A. Chopen, S. Fetu, active correspondence from S. to July, Turgenev lives in Russia: in the winter, mostly in St.

Petersburg, in the summer in Spassky. Goncharov, L. Tolstoy and A. Ostrovsky mutual cooling with distant Viardot leads to a short, but almost ended marriage to the novel with a distant relative of O. Tyutchev and supplies him with a preface. Tolstoy, nearly turned up by a duel, a new convergence of Turgenev with Polina Viardot is taking place; They live in Baden, then at the end of the Franco-Prussian war in Paris.

Turgenev converges closely with G. Flaubert and through him with E. Goncurs, A. Dode, E. Zola, G. Nekrasov; Their mutual hostility was preserved to the end. The death of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev preceded her more than a year and a half of a painful disease of the spinal cord cancer.

He was buried in a Volkov cemetery in St. Petersburg by will near Belinsky.