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IVAN TURGUENIEV (1818-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 417 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IVAN See also:TURGUENIEV (1818-1883)  , See also:Russian novelist, the descendant of an old Russian See also:family, was See also:born at See also:Orel, in the See also:government of the same name, in 1818 . His See also:father, the See also:colonel of a See also:cavalry See also:regiment, died when our author was sixteen years of See also:age, leaving two sons, See also:Nicholas and See also:Ivan, who were brought up under the care of their See also:mother, the heiress-of the Litvinovs, a See also:lady who owned large estates and many See also:serfs . Ivan studied for a See also:year at the university of See also:Moscow, then at St See also:Petersburg, and was finally sent in 1843 to See also:Berlin . His See also:education at See also:home had been conducted by See also:German and See also:French tutors, and was altogether See also:foreign, his mother only speaking Russian to her servants, as became a See also:great lady of the old school .

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