A House of Gentlefolk

In Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's "A House of Gentlefolk," the reader is invited into the intricate world of Russian gentry during the 1850s, a pivotal time of social and political change. The narrative unfolds through the eyes of Lavretsky, a disillusioned aristocrat, who returns to his ancestral estate only to confront the complexities of love, nostalgia, and the evolving landscape of Russian societ...