Turgenev's quietly tragic novel follows Lavretsky, who returns to his country estate and falls in love only to have happiness snatched away by his estranged wife's return. It is one of the tenderest portraits of the declining Russian gentry.
Sources for Ivan Turgenev — A Nest of the Gentry
Ivan Turgenev — A Nest of the Gentry in Russian Literature
Held in the Russian Literature chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
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