Name: Virgin Soil
Author: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
ISBN: 9780940322455

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Virgin Soil

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Virgin Soil (Russian: «Новь») is an 1877 novel by Ivan Turgenev. It was Turgenev's sixth and final novel as well as his longest and most ambitious. The novel centers on a depiction of some of the young people in late nineteenth-century Russia ... Read more

Virgin Soil (Russian: «Новь») is an 1877 novel by Ivan Turgenev. It was Turgenev's sixth and final novel as well as his longest and most ambitious. The novel centers on a depiction of some of the young people in late nineteenth-century Russia who decided to reject the standard cultural mores of their time, join the Populist movement, and 'go amongst the people', living the lives of simple workers and peasants rather than lives of affectation and luxury. The novel has a number of central characters around whom the action revolves. It explores, for instance, the life of Alexey Dmitrievich Nezhdanov, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, who seeks to radicalize the peasantry and involve them in political action. Less

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (November 9 [O.S. October 28] 1818 – September 3, 1883) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major w...

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