A Sportsman's Sketches
A Sportsman's Sketches is an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. This work is part of the Russian realist tradition in that the narrator is usually an uncommitted observer of the people he meets. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote this collection of short stories based on his own observations while hunting at his mother’s estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the injustices of the Russian system that constrained them.
Some of the notable stories include below:
- Byezhin prairie
- Kassyan of Fair Springs
- My neighbor Radilov
- Raspberry Spring
- The district doctor
- The peasant proprietor Ovsyanikov
- Two country gentlemen
- Yermolaï and the miller's wife
- Hor and Kalinitch
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