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turgenev: the serf and uncle tom’s cabin
Ivan Turgenev and his passion for liberty. The time was the mid-nineteenth century and a third of all Russians were serfs. Turgenev was a great emancipator and a gifted writer; he helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingeniously … Continue reading
turgenev: fighting for the serf on his turf
Ivan Turgenov was Russia’s great emancipator. He helped bring freedom to the serfs by the devastating method of showing what their lives were like through his short stories… ..As A Sportman’s Sketches appeared one by one in The Contemporary, their … Continue reading
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Tagged Czar Nicholas I, Gogol Dead Souls, Gogol Russian writer, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportman's Sketches, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Vavara Petrovna
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turgenev: end to serfdom
…Turgenev’s passion for liberty was already well developed when he entered Moscow Uinversity in 1833. It was a tradition that had come to him, some might say, by heredity: his father’s cousin Nicholas had been a leader of the Decembrist … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Alphonse Mucha, Czar Nicholas I, Gogol Dead Souls, Gogol The Inspector general, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportman's Sketches, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nichlas I The Cheka, Russian serfdom
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