A Sportsman's Sketches is a 1852 collection of 25 sketches of rural Russian life under the Ctzar by Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev.
Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage and loss, and anticipating Turgenev's great later works such as First Love and Fathers and Sons. His depiction of the cruelty and arrogance of the ruling classes was considered subversive and led to his arrest and confinement to his estate, but these sketches opened the minds of contemporary readers to the plight of the peasantry and were even said to have led Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom.
Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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1851/00/00 | Ivan Turgenev | Author | "A Sportsman's Sketches" are published in "The Contemporary" jounal between 1847 and 1851 | ||||
1852/00/00 | Ivan Turgenev | Author | A Sportsman's Sketches is published in book form |
Particulars for A Sportsman's Sketches: | |||
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Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
Narrative Arts | Literary Realism | ||
Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
Cultural Affiliation | Russian Serfs | ||
Art Type | Short Story Collection | an assembly of unrelated short fiction narratives |
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