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Бежин луг
Книги признанного классика мировой литературы, Ивана Сергеевича Тургенева, сегодня, также как и при его жизни, вызывают у читателя желание любить, думать, спорить и быть лучше. Причиной тому стали вечные темы и вечная красота, затронутые в произведениях мастера, для которых полтора столетия сравнимо с мгновением.
29 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1846
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Ivan Turgenev
1,825 books2,797 followersIvan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).
These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Turgenev was more concerned with the movement toward social reform in Russia.
These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Turgenev was more concerned with the movement toward social reform in Russia.
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December 30, 2024
A fun short story about slavic folklore with breathtaking imagery and a play tale told by young kids around a fire in the forest.
I absolutely adored the eerie atmosphere!
I absolutely adored the eerie atmosphere!
February 25, 2021
В 1851 году Тургенев публикует два рассказа-впечатления, относимые им всё к тому же циклу «Из записок охотника»: «Бежин луг» и «Касьян с Красивой Мечи». Теперь точно можно было сказать — отдельному изданию обязательно быть, после чего навсегда позабыть про написание воспоминаний о событиях минувших дней, к которым не совсем целесообразно возвращаться в дальнейшем. Так Иван думал тогда, но он обязательно вернётся к циклу впоследствии. Пока же, Тургенев повествовал, рассказывая чужие истории. Согласно содержания рассказа «Бежин луг», рассказчик практически не принимал участия в разговоре действующих лиц, всего лишь притворившись спящим. Пока он спал, дети у костра рассказывали друг другу страшные истории, в которых подлинно мистического не было, кроме вольных допущений, вроде невидимого домового, чудес у могилы утопленника, про водяных. Ничего нового Тургенев читателю не сообщал, разве только он был одним из тех, кто в пятидесятые годы интересовался возрождением славянской мифологии.
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June 14, 2025
Byezhin Prairie or Meadow is one story in The Sportsman’s Sketches by Ivan Turgenev, situated in the 873rd position on The Greatest Books of All Time site, a few hundred of those works are reviewed on my blog, where the best take is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
9 out of 10
Ivan Turgenev is the magnificent author of Fathers and Sons, which is part of the Greatest 100 Books of All Time, a novel that I am reading, again, these days, and one which uses, in view the sketches, it seems to me as if the short stories of this collection explore some of the themes that will be part of the major chef d’oeuvre
We can think of the ‘Checkoff formula: you take a lot of characters, all miserable because of something they won't do, and let them talk without influencing each other for three acts, and at the last moment you introduce some arbitrary calamity, or some proposed change like a return to Petrograd or a holiday in the Cry-mere, which you know won't make any difference to any of them, and then you go on for ten minutes or so after the thing should have stopped even by your own standards, to show how delicate and unemphatic your art is’ – this is from the pen of the fabulous Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis, my favorite author
https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
Fathers and Son is the quintessential magnum opus for me, with humor, surprises – reading it again, I am flabbergasted to see some of what I have missed, or maybe forgotten, such as the ring in the ear of the servant, emancipated alright, but this is happening about one hundred and seventy years ago, not in the hippy days…
Bazarov, the nihilist is dominating the landscape, but Pavel Kirsanov is my favorite, he is the aristocrat I identify with – however, he is noble, distinguished, careful with his appearance, to the point where the nihilist mocks him, and thus there are multiple differences between Pavel Kirsanov and this reader, who likes him nonetheless
Arkady Kirsanov returns to his father, Nikolay Kirsanov, after he had graduated university, and he will be on the estate with his friend, and mentor-like figure, Evgheny Bazarov, who is more than self-confident, calls a servant ‘bushy beard’ outright and will soon be insolent with Pavel Kirsanov and sparks will fly in the clash
This is all so mirthful, when the noble sees this guest, at the estate, he is asking if he will stay long, ‘this unkempt figure’, and understands that his father had been an army doctor, and he is annoyed, then irritated to see that this future doctor is not awed by the defense in status, he is in fact arrogant and shows contempt
‘He does not believe in principles, but he believes in frogs’ I mean it cannot be better than this, nec plus ultra, we have a debate of ideas, and at the same time such refined, delightful humor, Bazarov will be a doctor – presumably, although given the circumstances is does seem awkward, or even an oxymoron – and he studies frogs
When asked by children about them, the nihilist says that ‘they are like people, so I cut them and then I know what to do with people’ – something like that, it is not a quote – we must say that he does get along with the hoi polloi, despite the fact that he despises the Russians, and he has this argument in the debate with Pavel Kirsanov-
The peasants talk to him, see him more as a Russian that the aristocrat, who ‘does not even know how to talk to them’, argues Bazarov- Arkady tries to mediate somehow, and explains to his friend that his uncle has had a very sad story – as a young man, he was handsome and seduces so many women, he was the envy of men
Alas, he fell in love with a princess, and however well it seemed to work, in that albeit married, she accepted him, after some time, the princess would abandon the lover, and he would be devastated, never recovers from this…
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
9 out of 10
Ivan Turgenev is the magnificent author of Fathers and Sons, which is part of the Greatest 100 Books of All Time, a novel that I am reading, again, these days, and one which uses, in view the sketches, it seems to me as if the short stories of this collection explore some of the themes that will be part of the major chef d’oeuvre
We can think of the ‘Checkoff formula: you take a lot of characters, all miserable because of something they won't do, and let them talk without influencing each other for three acts, and at the last moment you introduce some arbitrary calamity, or some proposed change like a return to Petrograd or a holiday in the Cry-mere, which you know won't make any difference to any of them, and then you go on for ten minutes or so after the thing should have stopped even by your own standards, to show how delicate and unemphatic your art is’ – this is from the pen of the fabulous Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis, my favorite author
https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
Fathers and Son is the quintessential magnum opus for me, with humor, surprises – reading it again, I am flabbergasted to see some of what I have missed, or maybe forgotten, such as the ring in the ear of the servant, emancipated alright, but this is happening about one hundred and seventy years ago, not in the hippy days…
Bazarov, the nihilist is dominating the landscape, but Pavel Kirsanov is my favorite, he is the aristocrat I identify with – however, he is noble, distinguished, careful with his appearance, to the point where the nihilist mocks him, and thus there are multiple differences between Pavel Kirsanov and this reader, who likes him nonetheless
Arkady Kirsanov returns to his father, Nikolay Kirsanov, after he had graduated university, and he will be on the estate with his friend, and mentor-like figure, Evgheny Bazarov, who is more than self-confident, calls a servant ‘bushy beard’ outright and will soon be insolent with Pavel Kirsanov and sparks will fly in the clash
This is all so mirthful, when the noble sees this guest, at the estate, he is asking if he will stay long, ‘this unkempt figure’, and understands that his father had been an army doctor, and he is annoyed, then irritated to see that this future doctor is not awed by the defense in status, he is in fact arrogant and shows contempt
‘He does not believe in principles, but he believes in frogs’ I mean it cannot be better than this, nec plus ultra, we have a debate of ideas, and at the same time such refined, delightful humor, Bazarov will be a doctor – presumably, although given the circumstances is does seem awkward, or even an oxymoron – and he studies frogs
When asked by children about them, the nihilist says that ‘they are like people, so I cut them and then I know what to do with people’ – something like that, it is not a quote – we must say that he does get along with the hoi polloi, despite the fact that he despises the Russians, and he has this argument in the debate with Pavel Kirsanov-
The peasants talk to him, see him more as a Russian that the aristocrat, who ‘does not even know how to talk to them’, argues Bazarov- Arkady tries to mediate somehow, and explains to his friend that his uncle has had a very sad story – as a young man, he was handsome and seduces so many women, he was the envy of men
Alas, he fell in love with a princess, and however well it seemed to work, in that albeit married, she accepted him, after some time, the princess would abandon the lover, and he would be devastated, never recovers from this…
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
November 19, 2024
This short story is so clear and so natural in recounting conversations of some peasant boys. Turgenev lets us enter into their lives...and we get to know them.
October 25, 2020
Рейтинг: 3,5 (с округлением вниз). Прочитано в рамках Мистического классического «котября» - e-book 📱. Автор невероятно красиво описывает природу и атмосферу русской земли, так, что чувствуешь все краски окружающего мира и даже холод или тепло воздуха. Но как-то искусственно ощущалось соединение этого повествования с посиделками мальчишек у костра. И немного не хватило глубины этих историй, деталей в них, и поэтому было совершенно нестрашно и даже скучновато. Не зацепил меня этот рассказ в общем-то ничем.
January 19, 2021
Школьная программа, для сына это было мучением ( как для меня когда-то), а сейчас прочитала с удовольствием. Русский язык Тургенева - это что-то невероятное.
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October 9, 2021magic found in reality
March 5, 2024
An excellent short story with beautifully written imagery and play talea told by boys around a fire
February 3, 2026
"Бежин луг" оставил у меня тёплое впечатление прежде всего благодаря описаниям природы. Тургенев очень тонко и поэтично передаёт славянскую деревенскую атмосферу: ночной луг, костёр, туман, голоса мальчиков - всё это вызывает чувство ностальгии и странное ощущение возвращения в детство. Однако сам сюжет показался мне менее запоминающимся. Рассказ скорее строится на настроении и наблюдениях, чем на развитии событий. Несмотря на интересные народные поверья и живые образы крестьянских детей, история в целом не оставила сильного эмоционального следа.
February 14, 2025
Захотелось на ночной луг к костру, чтобы болтать с друзьями всю ночь.
Жаль, что ни луга, ни друзей нету.
Жаль, что ни луга, ни друзей нету.
June 15, 2024
Read this in the original Russian. ngl bro does go on about clouds for like 2 pages and if it wasn't for how beautiful the prose was, I would've checked out a looooong time ago. By no fault of Turgenev, the text was hard to understand at times, because of some archaic terminology (and in general terms I was not familiar with)... but again that's on me, I just gotta read more.
I first came vis-à-vis with Bezhin Lea when I was only very small (it was on a CD mix of random stories and audiobooks, amongst which there was also a story about a lord-of-the-flies-like alliance and...aliens?? It still feels like a fever-dream tbh) and it freaked me out so much. But it was the kind of story that you can't really stop listening to because even if it shakes you to your core, you wouldn't want to. In that respect, I believe Turgenev to be a very skilled story-teller and narrative builder. It is a pretty short story (shorter than I expected; the book I have actually merged it with a different story, and now I feel a bit cheated) so it wasn't hard to digest (although reading the original you may face some difficulties >.<).
I first came vis-à-vis with Bezhin Lea when I was only very small (it was on a CD mix of random stories and audiobooks, amongst which there was also a story about a lord-of-the-flies-like alliance and...aliens?? It still feels like a fever-dream tbh) and it freaked me out so much. But it was the kind of story that you can't really stop listening to because even if it shakes you to your core, you wouldn't want to. In that respect, I believe Turgenev to be a very skilled story-teller and narrative builder. It is a pretty short story (shorter than I expected; the book I have actually merged it with a different story, and now I feel a bit cheated) so it wasn't hard to digest (although reading the original you may face some difficulties >.<).
February 17, 2017
Барин умиляется простонародными детишками.
June 12, 2024
From Carl Proffer in From Karamzin to Bunin :
“Turgenev included it in the first edition of Notes of a Hunter(1852)….apparently intended the collection primarily as an exposure of serfdom….the censor who passed Notes was dismissed by Tsar Nikolai himself, but the book was extremely popular in liberal circles and had influence analogous to that of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Russian literature had few realistic descriptions of peasant life…it is famed for its lyrical qualities, for Turgenev’s pastel descriptions of nature, and for his portrayal of the poetic imagination of the boys.
Turgenev’s writing is so descriptive you are there with him on that glorious July day.
And the stories told by the drover boys remind me of the stories my older brothers used to tell me to frighten me.
Translated by Thomas Moore
PS - I didn’t read this illustrated edition, but I liked the cover of it better than the others that were available.
“Turgenev included it in the first edition of Notes of a Hunter(1852)….apparently intended the collection primarily as an exposure of serfdom….the censor who passed Notes was dismissed by Tsar Nikolai himself, but the book was extremely popular in liberal circles and had influence analogous to that of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Russian literature had few realistic descriptions of peasant life…it is famed for its lyrical qualities, for Turgenev’s pastel descriptions of nature, and for his portrayal of the poetic imagination of the boys.
Turgenev’s writing is so descriptive you are there with him on that glorious July day.
And the stories told by the drover boys remind me of the stories my older brothers used to tell me to frighten me.
Translated by Thomas Moore
PS - I didn’t read this illustrated edition, but I liked the cover of it better than the others that were available.
February 26, 2016
Красивое описание русской природы, но истории, напоминающие «Вечера на хутор близ Деканьки» не достаточно интересные. Любителям русской деревни читать стоит, остальным — необязательно.
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