A Sportsman's Sketches

Ivan Turgenev

⏱ 7 minRussian classic

A hunter wanders the fields and villages of provincial Russia, and the serfs he meets are drawn so truthfully and tenderly that the book helped turn a nation against serfdom. A guided tour of Turgenev's sketches.

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