La cour de Russie il y a cent ans 1725-1783; extraits des dépêches des ambassadeurs anglais et français

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“La cour de Russie il y a cent ans 1725-1783; extraits des dépêches des ambassadeurs anglais et français” is a book by Ivan Turgenev in the “General & Other” category, written in French. It is in the public domain, so you can read it for free from the open source using the buttons above. If you enjoyed it, press Like to help others find it. Similar books are listed below.

About the author

Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) grew up on an estate in central Russia owned by his tyrannical mother, who controlled thousands of serfs. He studied in Berlin, and his Sportsman's Sketches, with their sympathetic portraits of serfs, made him famous; an obituary of Gogol earned him a month in detention and exile to his estate.

He spent much of his life abroad, following the singer Pauline Viardot, whom he loved for forty years, and became a friend of Flaubert and a bridge between Russian and Western literature. His novel Fathers and Sons gave the world the word nihilist.