Facts about Ivan Turgenev

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   The 1818 birth of Ivan Turgenev in Orel, Russia preceded his 1883 death in Paris by 65 years, marking a literary career spanning nearly six decades across two continents.

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   Turgenev's 1862 novel Fathers and Sons sparked such fierce literary controversy that radicals and conservatives alike attacked him for his portrayal of nihilist protagonist Bazarov.

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   Turgenev spent 20 years in Western Europe after 1856, primarily in Paris and Baden-Baden, becoming estranged from Russian literary circles during this self-imposed exile.

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   During 1847, Ivan Turgenev was imprisoned for one month in the Peter and Paul Fortress for writing an obituary of Nikolai Gogol.

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