The Noble Nest

Fyodor Lavretsky returns from Paris to his ancestral estate with a broken heart — his wife's infidelity has dashed his dreams of family happiness. In the quiet provincial backwoods, among the linden alleys of the old estate, he hopes to find peace and forgetfulness. But there he meets Liza Kalitina — a modest and religious girl with a pure soul, who reignites in Lavretsky the hope for true love.
«The Noble Nest» (1859) — is the second novel by Ivan Turgenev, which became an elegy about the fading gentry. In it, the writer created a quintessential image of the «Turgenev girl», and the very name has entered the language as a synonym for a noble estate.