On a shelf in Vladimir Ulyanov’s room, there is a pale yellow-covered book, Ivan Turgenev’s “Hunter”s notes’ printed at the Moscow University printing house in 1852.
This is a series of short stories in which Turgenev described the life of the petty gentry and the common people of the mid-19th century. The narrative is based on the writer’s impressions and personal experience, as well as on the stories of people he met on his hunting trips. The observations accumulated during his stay in the countryside were so numerous that Turgenev processed them over several years. The result was a book which inaugurated a new stage in Russian literature — literature about peasants. In 1852 “Hunter”s notes’ was published as a separate edition.
The book historian and bibliographer Nikolay Smirnov-Sokolsky wrote about the Hunter’s Notes, “In 1852 “Hunter”s notes’ was published as a separate edition and immediately drew the attention not only of wide circles of readers, but also <…> the higher circles of government. Not long before the book appeared, Turgenev was subjected to reprisals <…> he was arrested for a month, and then sent to live in the countryside. The writer thought his arrest was connected with the ‘Letter from St. Petersburg’ published in the ‘Moskovskie Vedomosti’ on the death of N. V. Gogol. The real reason was the ‘Hunter’s notes’ <…>’.
‘Hunter’s notes’ was one of the favorite books of young Volodya Ulyanov. Nikolay Veretennikov, Lenin’s cousin, described an interesting case,
This is a series of short stories in which Turgenev described the life of the petty gentry and the common people of the mid-19th century. The narrative is based on the writer’s impressions and personal experience, as well as on the stories of people he met on his hunting trips. The observations accumulated during his stay in the countryside were so numerous that Turgenev processed them over several years. The result was a book which inaugurated a new stage in Russian literature — literature about peasants. In 1852 “Hunter”s notes’ was published as a separate edition.
The book historian and bibliographer Nikolay Smirnov-Sokolsky wrote about the Hunter’s Notes, “In 1852 “Hunter”s notes’ was published as a separate edition and immediately drew the attention not only of wide circles of readers, but also <…> the higher circles of government. Not long before the book appeared, Turgenev was subjected to reprisals <…> he was arrested for a month, and then sent to live in the countryside. The writer thought his arrest was connected with the ‘Letter from St. Petersburg’ published in the ‘Moskovskie Vedomosti’ on the death of N. V. Gogol. The real reason was the ‘Hunter’s notes’ <…>’.
‘Hunter’s notes’ was one of the favorite books of young Volodya Ulyanov. Nikolay Veretennikov, Lenin’s cousin, described an interesting case,
