A Desperate Character

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Vasily Perov, Ivan Shishkin and Ilya Repin. Late Turgenev: a ruined nobleman who destroys himself with a kind of gaiety, a duel, a village, a dog. He was the first Russian to win a European readership, admired by Flaubert and James, and was arrested for his obituary of Gogol; these stories are quieter than the novels and colder, the work of a ma...