Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is a Russian writer, known throughout the world. The guys begin to get acquainted with his great works from the school bench, so that almost every student knows who wrote “Fathers and Sons”.
early years
Ivan was born on November 9, 1818. Until nine years old, he and his parents lived in the city of Orel. Later, the Turgenevs acquired a large estate in the capital and moved there.
Not everyone knows that today you can read the letters of little Ivan, which he wrote to his uncle Nikolai. From them it is possible to understand what orders were in the educational institution where he studied, and there is also information about his successes and achievements.
Youth
The one who wrote “Fathers and Sons”, in his teens, had a great thirst for knowledge. In 1833, young Ivan entered the capital's university in the department of literature. The following spring, he successfully passed all the exams, after which he switched to the second year. But he was not destined to graduate from this university, because soon he and his father left for the northern capital. There he entered the St. Petersburg Institute, and after graduation he studied in Berlin for a couple of years. In the capital of Germany, he met with Bakunin and Stankevich, with whom he subsequently began to communicate very well. Friendship with these people reminded Ivan of Moscow University, which he missed. For good reason this educational institution often appears in his novels and short stories. In those days, Turgenev had no idea what would once become famous, and everyone would know who wrote "Fathers and Sons."
Ivan left the capital in 1834, and returned only seven years later, in the spring of 1841. All these years, his mother was waiting for him to go with him to Spasskoye.
Work on the novel "Fathers and Sons"
Turgenev began to ponder the first novel for the first time in 1860.
Then he was in a small town called Ventnor, located in the UK. There, he fell into the hands of an article by Dobrolyubov, dedicated to the novel “The Eve”. It contained many dubious ideas with which Turgenev did not agree. And in his work, he decided to challenge them.
In this novel, Turgenev weaved a lot of discussion about "new people" who had just begun to appear in Russia. The one who wrote Fathers and Sons later said that a young village doctor who died before 1860 served as the prototype of Bazarov. According to Turgenev, this person was very interesting, since it was guessed at that new outlandish quality, which later became known as nihilism.
Soon, the writer moved to France and continued to write a novel there. He wanted the novel “Fathers and Sons” to be written by mid-spring, so that he could later go home with his newly-made work.
During the winter, the author wrote the first few chapters, but the work went on very slowly.
Turgenev wanted to personally face the problems of modern Russian society, and therefore he soon came to his homeland. It so happened that the author wrote the beginning of the novel "Fathers and Sons" before the reform of 1861, and finished the work after it. He was in Spassky when the end of the last sentence was put.