Fathers and Sons

By Sergeyevich Turgenev

Chronology of Turgenev

1843 Meets Pauline Viardot and publishes Parasha at his own expense

1847-52 Begins publishing a series of short sketches of Russian village life that are collected under the title Notes of a Hunter (sometimes translated as A Sportsman's Sketches) in 1852

  2. "Diary of a Superfluous Man" is published. Finishes A Month in the Country

  2. Rudin and Faust

  2. "Asya"

  3. A Nest of Gentlefolk (also translated as Liza and A Home of the Gentry)

1860 On the Eve, First Love and the essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote"

  2. Writes Fathers and Sons

  2. Fathers and Sons published

  2. Smoke

  2. A Lear of the Steppes

  3. Torrents of Spring

  2. Virgin Soil

  2. The play A Month in the Country is staged

  2. Turgenev dies on 3rd September from spinal cancer