Ivan Turgenev

Writing

Ivan Turgenev

Born November 9, 1818 · Oryol, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Oryol Oblast, Russia]

Died September 3, 1883 · aged 64

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 Sportsman's Sketches', also known as 'Sketches from a Hunter's Album' or 'Notes of a Hunter', a collection of short stories, based on his observations of peasant life and nature, while hunting in the forest…

Known For

The SingersThe Singers · 2026
The Singers
★ 6.82026
MovieMusicDrama
An impromptu singing contest at a dive bar turns a lonely night into a soul-baring moment of shared harmony.
Torrents of SpringTorrents of Spring · 1989
Torrents of Spring
★ 5.91989
MovieDramaRomance
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?
A Nest of GentryA Nest of Gentry · 1969
A Nest of Gentry
★ 5.71969
MovieRomanceDrama
Russian nobleman Fyodor Ivanovich Lavretsky returns to his estate after years in Paris, only to fall in love with his young cousin Liza, complicating his already troubled marriage and leading to a tragic, emotionally complex romance.
First LoveFirst Love · 1970
First Love
★ 5.51970
MovieDramaRomance
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
All ForgottenAll Forgotten · 2001
All Forgotten
★ 4.32001
MovieDramaRomance
A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.
ReturnReturn · 1975
Return
★ 6.01975
MovieDramaComedy
The story is about two friends living in one of the provinces of central Russia. Pyotr Vasilyevich decides to marry off his young friend, Boris Andreyich. They visit a widow, two sisters of marriageable age, and the Barsukov family, which consists of two members: the father and his 19-year-old daughter, Verochka.
FrühlingsflutenFrühlingsfluten · 1924
Frühlingsfluten
★ 9.01924
Movie
Two WomenTwo Women · 2014
Two Women
★ 6.12014
MovieRomanceDrama
A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.

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RudinRudin · 1977
Rudin
★ 6.11977
MovieRomance
In the house of Daria Mikhailovna Lasunskaya, a noble and wealthy landowner, former beauty and lioness of the capital, who even far from civilization still organizes her salon, a certain Baron, erudite and expert in philosophy, who promised to introduce his scientific research, is waiting. Instead of the expected celebrity arrives Dmitri Nikolaevich Rudin, whom the Baron instructed to deliver his article. Rudin charms everyone with his erudition, originality and logical thinking. Lasunskaya is determined to make the ornament of his salon. During the two months that Rudin spends at Lasunskaya's, he becomes indispensable to her. But Rudin's misfortune is that while he inflames others, he himself remains as cold as ice, never thinking that his words "may confuse and destroy a young heart".

Novel

Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished FilmBezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film · 1968
Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film
★ 6.01968
MovieDrama
Bezhin Lug (Bezhin Meadow) was to be a Soviet film about a young farm boy whose father attempts to betray the government for political reasons by sabotaging the year's harvest, and the son's efforts to stop his own father to protect the Soviet state, culminating in the boy's murder and a social uprising. Assigned to Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein, the filming followed the same path as with his previous effort, "Que Viva Mexico", into cost overrun and over-shooting of footage. Furthermore, Eisenstein's usage of forbidden experimental film techniques outraged his government superiors, who ordered the film destroyed before it was even completed. All that survives are the first and last frames of each shot, preserved by Sergei Eisenstein’s wife, Pera Atasheva. The 1967 reconstruction, by Naum Kleiman of the Eisenstein Museum and Sergei Yutkevich of Gosfilmofond, places these frames in order, approximating the original film.

Short Story