Noble Nest. Fathers and Sons. First Love

The outstanding master of words Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev became one of those who laid the foundations of the Russian classical novel. The writer's work played a huge role in the spiritual development of Russian society and enriched world culture as a whole.
The works included in the collection offered to the reader recreate a vivid and lively picture of Russian reality in the 1830s-1860s. The novel "Noble Nest" introduces us to the image of the aristocracy of those years and is dedicated to the dramatic love story of two main characters - Fyodor Lavretsky and the young Lisa Kalitina. In the novel "Fathers and Sons", Turgenev explores the interaction and clash of two cultures - old, conservative nobility and a new, rapidly developing layer of democratic raznochintsy, carriers of progressive ideas, through the conflict between representatives of two generations, Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov and Yevgeny Bazarov. The story "First Love", based on the life experience of the writer himself, vividly conveys the feelings and emotional experiences of the young hero in love, sixteen-year-old Vladimir. "This is the only thing, - Turgenev recalled, - that still brings me pleasure, because it is life itself, it is not made up... "First Love" is experienced".
The book is illustrated by the outstanding master of domestic book illustration Anatoly Zinovievich Itkin.