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turgenev: losing baptized property

Ivan Turgenev. He was Russia’s Great Emancipator, helping abolish serfdom; he helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingeniously devastating method: writing short stories that showed what their lives were like… …In Russia, at least, the prospects for emancipation … Continue reading

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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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tergenev: high tide for the serf

The great emancipator: Ivan Turgenev and his collection of stories A Sportsman’s Sketch. He helped bring freedom to the serf by the devastating method of showing them what their lives were like through fiction… …Even in those stories where the … Continue reading

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turgenev: sportman’s sketch

Turgenev was the great emancipator of the Russian serf. He helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingeniously devastating method: Ivan Turgenev showed them what their lives were like… The inception of the Sketches was casual. In 1847 Turgenev … Continue reading

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turgenev: taking the serf out of soviet

Ivan Turgenev was Russia’s great emancipator. He helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingeniously devastating method: showing what their lives were like… …Vavara Petrovna soon had another reason to be angry with her son. During the season of … Continue reading

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turgenov: sorely disappointed

…Turgenov. The great emancipator. Turgenov helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingenuously devastating method: he showed the serfs what their lives were like. Turgenov returns from Berlin to take a post in the Russian Ministry of the Interior… … Continue reading

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turgenev: unchain the serfs

Turgenev and the abolition of serfdom. More than they bargained for… …The government’s anti-intellectual drive had effectively crippled the Russian universities, and so, in 1838, Turgenev, like most of his fellow countrymen who wanted a serious education, headed for Berlin. … Continue reading

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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

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turgenev and the serfs: “baptised property”

…Vavara Petrovna, Turgenev’s mother, had her office furnished like a court of law, with her portrait behind the dais in a pose reminiscent of Catherine The Great. Here the serfs were dealt rough, often irrational judgement for the smallest transgression. … Continue reading

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great emancipator

Russia’s great emancipator. Ivan Turgenov helped bring freedom to the serfs by an ingeniously devastating method: showing them what their lives were like… “Almost everything I saw aroused in me a feeling of embarrassment, indignation, and disgust…In my eyes the … Continue reading

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