A Sportsman’s Sketches

E1031928

A Sportsman’s Sketches is a collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev that vividly portrays Russian rural life and serfdom, helping to shape Russian realism and influence social reform.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
literary work
short story collection
associatedWithEvent debate on serfdom in Russia
author Ivan Turgenev NERFINISHED
contributedTo criticism of serfdom
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
firstPublicationForm serial publication
firstPublisher Sovremennik NERFINISHED
genre realist literature
short stories
hasAlternativeTitle A Sportsman’s Notebook NERFINISHED
Notes of a Hunter NERFINISHED
influenced Russian realism
movement toward the abolition of serfdom in Russia
social consciousness in Russia
literaryMovement Russian realism NERFINISHED
literarySignificance landmark of 19th-century Russian literature
mainTheme Russian rural life
landed gentry
peasant life
serfdom
social injustice
narrativePerspective first-person narrator
narratorOccupation sportsman
notableStory Bailiff
Bezhin Meadow NERFINISHED
Khor and Kalinych NERFINISHED
Raspberry Spring NERFINISHED
Tatyana Borisovna and Her Nephew NERFINISHED
The Bailiff’s Wife NERFINISHED
The District Doctor NERFINISHED
The Forest and the Steppe NERFINISHED
The Hamlet of Shchigrovsky District NERFINISHED
The Office NERFINISHED
The Rattling NERFINISHED
The Singers NERFINISHED
Two Landowners NERFINISHED
Yermolai and the Miller’s Wife NERFINISHED
originalLanguage Russian
portrays everyday life of serfs
moral character of Russian peasants
relationships between landowners and peasants
publicationPeriod 1847–1852
setting Russian countryside
settingPeriod 19th century
style detailed nature description
psychological realism

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Ivan Turgenev notableWork A Sportsman’s Sketches