He was dismissed but Turgenev was held responsible and imprisoned for a month, and then exiled to his country estate. The St Petersburg censor banned publication but the Moscow censor allowed it. He is gone, that man whom we now have the right (the bitter right, given to us by death) to call great. What Russian heart is not shaken by those three words?. That same year he wrote an obituary for Nikolai Gogol: Gogol is dead!. He was buried in St Petersburg.įirst love & Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev Ivan Turgenev died on 3rd September 1883 of a spinal abscess, a complication of the metastatic liposarcoma, in his house near Paris. In January 1883, an aggressive malignant tumor was removed but by then it had metastasized in his upper spinal cord, causing him intense pain in his final few months of life. His health declined during his later years. But the hostile reaction prompted Turgenev's decision to again leave Russia. Its leading character is considered the first ‘Bolshevik’ in Russian literature. ‘Fathers and Sons’, Turgenev's most famous and enduring novel, appeared in 1862. During this period he wrote his finest stories and four novels.Īlexander II ascended the Russian throne in 1855, and the political climate relaxed. He was dismissed but Turgenev was held responsible and imprisoned for a month, and then exiled to his country estate.Īlong with many other intellectuals Turgenev left Russia and settled in Paris in 1854. He is gone, that man whom we now have the right (the bitter right, given to us by death) to call great." The St Petersburg censor banned publication but the Moscow censor allowed it. That same year he wrote an obituary for Nikolai Gogol: "Gogol is dead!. He started his career with the Russian Civil Service and it was only in 1852, after several earlier publications, that he made his name with his short story collection, ‘A Sportsman's Sketches’, based on his observations of peasant life and nature. In 1838 Turgenev studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin for 3 years before returning to St Petersburg for his master's. During that time his father died from kidney stone disease. Turgenev studied for a year at the University of Moscow and then at the University of St Petersburg to study Classics, Russian literature, and philology.
When he was nine the family moved to Moscow to give their children a better education. Their father spent little time with them and this undoubtedly had an effect on his sons.
Surrounded by foreign governesses he became fluent in French, German, and English. He and his two brothers were raised by their mother on the family estate. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born on 9th November 1818 in Oryol, Russia to parents from the nobility.
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