Foreign thinker
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan TurgenevNovel writing, fiction writing, and Russian literatureRussian1818–1883
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Ivan Turgenev was a Russian writer and playwright and one of the prominent figures of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Through works such as *Fathers and Sons* and *A Sportsman's Sketches*, he explored generational conflict, social transformation, individual freedom, and the condition of the Russian peasantry, and played an important role in introducing Russian literature to European readers.