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turgenev: the end
The power of the pen over the sword… …The Viardot’s had been living in Baden-Baden because of Louis Viardot’s hatred of Napoleon III. After the emperor’s abdication in 1870, they returned to France and settled in a house at Bougival, … Continue reading
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Tagged Gerard Depardieu Russia, Grigory Rasputin, Isaac Levitan painter, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportsman's Sketches, Louis Viardot, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pauline Viardot, Pushkin statue Moscow, Sergei Mikhailovich Kravchinskii (1851-95), Stepniak Russian writer
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turgenev: fathers & sons & a smoke
Ivan Turgenev was Russia’s great emancipator of the serf. His method: Show what their lives were really like through his stories and novels… …Alexander II’s emancipation act of the serfs of 1861 was the background for Ivan Turgenev’s next novel, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Kustodiev painter, Czar Alexander II, Gustave Dore, Harriet Beecher Stowe, ivan turgenev, Ivan Turgenev A Sportsman's Sketches, Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons, Louis Viardot, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pauline Viardot, Russia Serf emancipation
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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