Smoke

In the circle of life burners at the resort in Baden-Baden, serious passions are boiling and continuous, heated debates about the fate of the homeland are taking place. Thirty-year-old landowner Grigory Litvinov looks with boredom and irony at this farce,... but a sudden meeting with his youthful love, the married high-society beauty Irina Ratmirova, splits his life into before and after and transforms Grigory into a man literally obsessed with passion... One of the most psychologically nuanced and witty novels by Turgenev, in which he very accurately described social and political themes and the modern life of the heroes — unclear, enveloping, constantly striving to change form. The collection also includes the stories Unhappy, belonging to the romantic period of the author's work, and Punin and Baburin, written already in the style of psychological realism.