Ivan Turgenev Writer

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (/tɜrˈɡɛnjəf, -ˈɡeɪn-/; Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев; IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲeɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf]; November 9 [O.S. October 28] 1818 – September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.

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Birth date	October 28, 1818
Birth name	Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Birth place	Oryol , Russian Empire
Date of death	September 03, 1883
Place of death	Bougival , Seine-et-Oise , France

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genre	Short story
influenced	Anton Chekhov Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert Joseph Conrad Vladimir Nabokov Truman Capote Henry James Theodor Storm Irène Némirovsky Herman Bang
influenced by	Arthur Schopenhauer Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Vissarion Belinsky Alexander Pushkin Friedrich Schiller Mikhail Bakunin William Shakespeare August Wilhelm Schlegel Lord Byron Alexander Druzhinin Mikhail Lermontov Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pavel Annenkov
movement	Literary realism
notable work	A Sportsman's Sketches