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Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev was born on 9th November 1818 to noble and wealthy parents in Oryol, Russia. His father a Colonel in the Russian Cavalry and his mother came from the nobel Lutovinov house of the Oryol Governorate. Turgenev spent the majority of his younger life in Moscow with his two younger brothers, where he was brought up having a proper education. Turgenev started out university life at the university of Moscow in 1833, before moving to the University of St Petersburg to study Classic Russian Literature and philology between 1834 to 1837, it was during this time Turgenev started to write poetry. Whilst he was studying there he would lose his father to kidney stoney disease and his youngest brother to epilepsy.From 1838 to 1841, Turgenev studied philosophy and history at the university of Berlin before finishing his master in St Petersburg. Unable to get a professorship at St Petersburg University, Turgenev ventured into the world of politics and government where he spent two years between 1843 and 1845 at the Russian Ministry of Interior. Here he would continue to write poetry before venturing into play writing with 'The Rash Thing To Do', in 1843. Though he never married, Turgenev did have a love with the well renowned Spanish singer Pauline Viardot. Though this relationship would only be a platonic one, the two would become close friends exchanging letters with Viardot helping Turgenev later on in life. Turgenev was known to have many love affairs with his family servants, with one of these love affairs in 1842 leading to the birth of his illegitimate daughter Paulinette. Turgenev would later entrust his dear friend Viardot to bring-up his daughter Paulinette. Turgenev's writing career began in the 1840's, writing long poems before transitioning into plays, novels and short stories. Unlike a lot of writers of the time Turgenev's works shied away from the religious influences of the time and preferred to revolve his work around the political and social issues of Russia during the 1800's. This would come and haunt him when he wrote his greatest novel 'Father and Sons' in 1862, where it was given a hostile reaction by the Russian audience leading him to go into self-exile. This self-exile first sent Turgenev to Germany but at the outbreak of the Franco-German war in 1870, he moved to London and then Paris, where he would settle. Turgenev's final piece of word was a short story called 'The Mysterious tales' in 1883, later that year he would die at the age of 64 on the 3rd September 1883 in Bougival, France. His body was then transported back to St Petersburg where he was buried in Volkovo Cemetery.
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Clara Militch by Ivan Turgenev - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Ivan Turgenev
The Collected Works of
IVAN TURGENEV
VOLUME 15 OF 53
Clara Militch
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2015
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Ivan Turgenev: Parts Edition
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IVAN TURGENEV
IN 53 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Novels
1, Rudin
2, A House of Gentlefolk
3, On the Eve
4, Fathers and Sons
5, Smoke
6, Virgin Soil
The Novellas
7, The Diary of a Superfluous Man
8, Yakov Pasinkov
9, Faust
10, Acia
11, First Love
12, A Lear of the Steppes
13, Torrents of Spring
14, The Song of Triumphant Love
15, Clara Militch
16, Phantoms
17, The Dream
The Short Stories
18, A Sportsman’s Sketches
19, A Tour in the Forest
20, Andrei Kolosov
21, A Correspondence
22, The District Doctor
23, Mumu
24, The Jew
25, An Unhappy Girl
26, The Duellist
27, Three Portraits
28, Enough
29, A Desperate Character
30, A Strange Story
31, Punin and Baburin
32, Old Portraits
33, The Brigadier
34, Pyetushkov
35, Knock, Knock, Knock
36, The Inn
37, Lieutenant Yergunov’s Story
38, The Dog
39, The Watch
40, The Rendezvous
41, A Reckless Character
42, Father Alexyéi’s Story
43, Poems in Prose
The Plays
44, A Month in the Country
45, A Provincial Lady
46, A Poor Gentleman
47, Careless
48, Broke
49, Where It Is Thin, There It Breaks
50, The Family Charge
51, The Bachelor
The Criticism
52, The Criticism
The Biography
53, Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett
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Clara Militch
Translated by Constance Garnett, 1897
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I
In the spring of 1878 there was living in Moscow, in a small wooden house in Shabolovka, a young man of five - and - twenty, called Yakov Aratov. With him lived his father’s sister, an elderly maiden lady, over fifty, Platonida Ivanovna. She took charge of his house, and looked after his household expenditure, a task for which Aratov was utterly unfit. Other relations he had none. A few years previously, his father, a provincial gentleman of small property, had moved to Moscow together with him and Platonida Ivanovna, whom he always, however, called Platosha; her nephew, too, used the same name. On leaving the country - place where they had always lived up till then, the elder Aratov settled in the old capital, with the object of putting his son to the university, for which he had himself prepared him; he bought for a trifle a little house in one of the outlying streets, and established himself in it, with all his books and scientific odds and ends. And of books and odds and ends he had many — for he was a man of some considerable learning … ‘an out - and - out eccentric,’ as his neighbours said of him. He positively passed among them for a sorcerer; he had even been given the title of an ‘insectivist.’ He studied chemistry, mineralogy, entomology, botany, and medicine; he doctored patients gratis with herbs and metallic powders of his own invention, after the method of Paracelsus. These same powders were the means of his bringing to the grave his pretty, young, too delicate wife, whom he passionately loved, and by whom he had an only son. With the same powders he fairly ruined his son’s health too, in the hope and intention of strengthening it, as he detected anæmia and a tendency to consumption in his constitution inherited from his mother. The name of ‘sorcerer’ had been given him partly because he regarded himself as a descendant — not in the direct line, of course — of the great Bruce, in honour of whom he had called his son Yakov, the Russian form of James.
He was what is called a most good - natured man, but of melancholy temperament, pottering, and timid, with a bent for everything mysterious and occult…. A half - whispered ah! was his habitual exclamation; he even died with this exclamation on his lips, two years after his removal to Moscow.
His son, Yakov, was in appearance unlike his father, who had been plain, clumsy, and awkward; he took more after his mother. He had the same delicate pretty features, the same soft ash - coloured hair, the same little aquiline nose, the same pouting childish lips, and great greenish - grey languishing eyes, with soft eyelashes. But in character he was like his father; and the face, so unlike the father’s face, wore the father’s expression; and he had the triangular - shaped hands and hollow chest of the old Aratov, who ought, however, hardly to be called old, since he never reached his fiftieth year. Before his death, Yakov had already entered the university in the faculty of physics and mathematics; he did not, however, complete his course; not through laziness, but because, according to his notions, you could learn no more in the university than you could studying alone at home; and he did not go in for a diploma because he had no idea of entering the government service. He was shy with his