Classic Russian author Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is considered one of the best stylists in Russian literature. His lyrical novels, plays, and poetry reflect themes of class suffering and profound humanity at the same time as they portray idealized nostalgic love, innocent young women, and the bittersweet fading of Russia's nobility.
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Constance Clara Garnett (nee Black; 1861 - 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public.
