About Ivan Turgenev
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. Tolstoy, more than Dostoyevsky, at first anyway, rather despised Turgenev. Turgenev's brain was found to be one of the largest on record, weighing 2,012 g (4 lb 7 oz).
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