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.
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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.