Ivan Turgenev
(1818-1883)

We present here some English translations of the work of the great Russian writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883).

We intend to reprint here as many as we can of the English translations of Turgenev's works. Following is a list by Constance Black Garnett (1862-1946), which were printed at the end of the 19th century in London by W. Heinemann and in New York by Macmillan. (This series has also been reprinted, in 1970, by AMS Press.) 

• 1. - Rudin (1856)
• 2. - A House of Gentlefolk (1859)
• 3. - On the Eve (1860) ("Nakonune")
• 4. - Fathers and Children (1862) ("Ottsy i deti"). See Fathers and Sons in the Richard Hare translation.
• 5. - Smoke ("Dym") (1867)
• 6-7. - Virgin Soil (1877) ("Nov'") in the Rochelle S. Townsend translation
• 8-9. - A Sportsman's Sketches (1852-1874) ("Zapiski okhotnika"). See also "A District Doctor" in the Hapgood translation.
• 10. - Dream Tales and Other Stories
• 11. - Torrents of Spring ("Veshnie vody") (1872), First Love, Mumu (1854)
• 12. - A Lear of the Steppes (1870) and Other Stories
  1. A Lear of the Steppes
  2. Faust
  3. Acia
• 13. - Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) and Other Stories. See "Diary of a Superfluous Man".
• 14. - A Desperate Character and Other Stories
  1. A Desperate Character (1881)
  2. A Strange Story (1869)
  3. Punin and Baburin (1874)
  4. Old Portraits (1881)
  5. The Brigadier (1867)
  6. Pyetushkov (1847)
• 15. - The Jew and Other Stories
  1. The Jew (1846)
  2. An Unhappy Girl (1868)
  3. The Duellist (1846)
  4. Three Portraits (1846)
  5. Enough (1864)

We also present some short reviews and critical pieces:

• "Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)" by Henry James, 1897.
• "Ivan Turgenev" by Henry James, 1903.
• Introduction to Smoke, by John Reed, 1919
• Introduction, by Edward Garnett, 1899, to A Desperate Character and Other Stories.
• Introduction, by Edward Garnett, 1899, to The Jew and Other Stories.
• Introduction, by Edward Garnett, 1899, to A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories.

Some little further information is available on the Internet:

• Encyclopædia Britannica article on Turgenev. Biography and history of literature.
• Encarta article
• Columbia Encyclopedia entry on Turgenev
• Bibliography and fine painting of Turgenev
• 1872 portrait by Perov in Russian art survey online
• Review of Review of Home of the Gentry translation by Freeborn in Penguin
• Biography on page in Finland
• Turgenev page by Melissa McDaniel
• (Partial) Fritz Eichenburg woodcut portrait of Turgenev for a book (takes a long time to load!)
• Wallpaper Museum: Turgenev Home in Moscow
• Short excerpts from Rudin in Dynaweb at Minnesota
• "Shchi", excerpt on soup, in English
• Cathy's short page at Clark
• List of many Russian literature links
• Public Electronic Library books in Russian--by Eugene Peskin
• Asya and Mumu in Russian (also illustrated)
• Letter from Flaubert (in English, thanks to Rich Geib)
• Turgenev and Tolstoy, Theatre between psychologism and realism, by Franco Manzoni
• Fine printing of Torrents of Spring, with 21 original etchings by Valentin Popov, 1994, The Gordian Press
• A few quotes and many ads
• Review of Torrents of Spring (cached at www.google.com)
• Torrents of Spring was made into a movie in 1990 by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Timothy Hutton and Nastassja Kinski, (PG-13) and is available on videotape.