The District Doctor

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 – 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection titled "A Sportsman's Sketches" (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism. "His novel Fathers and Sons" (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.