Turgenev set sail for Germany in May 1838, in order to enrol at the University of Berlin, where he intended to deepen his knowledge of philosophy. Stepnoi korol' lir, (three-act play), 1870, S. F. Razsokhina (Moscow, Russia), 1882, translation by William Hand Browne published with Spring Floods as A Lear of the Steppe, Holt (New York, NY), 1874. himself to meeting many of the country's leading writers. Knowing that his former student was regularly attending the musical soirées organized by Pauline Viardot, Tchaikovsky, who had some vague plans for arranging a concert featuring his works in Paris in March 1877, wrote to Taneyev in January asking if he thought that it might be possible to persuade Madame Viardot to perform some of his songs at such a concert and enclosed a letter to that effect which Taneyev was to pass on to Turgenev (Tchaikovsky's letter to Taneyev is quoted below). Poema, [St. Petersburg, Russia], 1845.

." I will send it to you" [28]. A Month in the Country, translated and edited by Richard Freeborn, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1991.

However, even if Tchaikovsky had overcome his dislike of social formalities and decided to call on Turgenev and the Viardots, he would have been disappointed — because Turgenev had in fact left Paris at the end of February and set off for Russia! Dnevnik lishnego cheloveka (originally published in Otechestvennie zapiski), 1850, translated by Henry Gersoni as The Diary of a Superfluous Man in Mumu, and The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Funk & Wagnalls (New York, NY), 1884. The story of the young generation of the 1870s, the novel depicts this new generation as industrious, forward-thinking activists disenchanted with the empty idealism of their parents' generation; it became a best seller in Europe, but was characteristically condemned in Russia. Here he socialized with Zola, Maupassant, and Flaubert, and also penned some of his most enduringly popular novella-length fiction, such as First Love and Spring Floods. Stikhotvoreniia v proze, 1883, translated as Poems in Prose, Cupples, Upham (Boston, MA), 1883. Get around in comfort with a chauffeured car or van to suit your budget and requirements. Let our meeting and events experts help you organize a superb event in St. Petersburg. In this letter Turgenev also explained that Madame Viardot had asked him to thank Tchaikovsky in her name (implying that the copy of the Six Romances, Op.

Now this is what I wanted to discuss. 614-632. It is therefore all the more significant that Turgenev, who was to some extent familiar with the music of Yevgeny Onegin thanks to the vocal-piano reduction which Pauline Viardot had been playing through in Paris, as well as with the libretto, which he had studied with some bemusement (as that letter to Tolstoy indicates), actually attended a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's opera at the Moscow Conservatory on 17 February/1 March 1879.

[…] : Now I have calmed down. Frequently invited to major cultural events (such as the Sir Walter Scott centenary festival in Edinburgh in 1871 or the Paris Literary Congress of 1878), Turgenev was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law by the University of Oxford in 1879 for his contribution to the liberation of the serfs in Russia. Born August 31, 1908, in Fresno, CA; died of cancer May 18, 1981, in Fresno, CA; son of Armenak (a Presbyterian preacher an…, Applegate, Katherine (Alice) 1956– (K. A. Applegate) Tchaikovsky himself left Paris on 28 February/12 March, and after stopping at Berlin for a few days reached Saint Petersburg on 9/21 March.

213-224; Volume 17, 1984, pp. К проблеме сравнительно-типологического анализа драматургий, Тургенев и Чайковский. A comfortable pre-function area is near the room.

Entries for 31 July/12 August and 1/13 August 1886, Entry for 4/16 February 1887, on the way from. The publication of the Zapiski okhotnika sketches eventually drew the ire of the Russian government and created difficulties for its idealistic author.

It was also during this stay that Turgenev wrote one of his most mysterious stories: The Song of Triumphant Love, which Tchaikovsky would later consider setting to music (see TH 227). Meanwhile, Turgenev had returned to Russia to attend the death of his estranged mother in 1850; now he was the owner of eleven estates covering over thirty thousand acres and worked by several thousand serfs. It is not known who her mother was, but Turgenev clearly took an interest in Yevdokiya's fate, sending her an encouraging letter in 1881 — a few years after she had completed her schooling at an orphanage in 1878 and had decided to become a teacher — and, significantly, bequeathing to her the royalties from performances of his plays. Returning to Russia following the death of his older brother, Turgenev discovered that the cultural barometer had shifted in his homeland; upon his return to St. Petersburg he was honored by friends and colleagues, and old disagreements such as that with Tolstoy were healed. Tchaikovsky, who had his own worries on his mind during this stay in the French capital (he was looking after his niece Tatyana Davydova), evidently saw no reason to call on Turgenev now given that he had chosen not to do so on earlier visits to Paris. On 3 September 1883 [N.S.] This page was last modified on 28 March 2020, at 16:15. This comparison of Tchaikovsky with the members of the "Mighty Handful", always to the detriment of the latter (with the exception of Rimsky-Korsakov), is one that Turgenev would frequently make in his letters to Vladimir Stasov in the 1870s, provoking the latter's fury and indignation. All rights reserved. A few days later, on 1/13 March 1879, he attended a soirée in Vladimir Kashperov's flat at which Tchaikovsky's loyal publisher Pyotr Jurgenson was also present. Turgenev for his part was, of all the major Russian writers, the one who showed the greatest enthusiasm for Tchaikovsky's music — for, although Tolstoy was indeed moved to tears by the Andante cantabile in String Quartet No.

Evidently rumours had reached Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana that preparations were underway at the Moscow Conservatory for a production of the opera, and the fact that he thought Turgenev (with whom he had only recently been reconciled after their quarrel of 1861) might be able to tell him something about it, confirms that Turgenev's keen interest in Tchaikovsky's music was widely known. Tchaikovsky's name has risen greatly in general estimation here after the Russian Concerts in the Trocadéro [in the summer of 1878]; in Germany, on the other hand, his name has, for a long time already, been the object if not of esteem, then at least of attention. In 1834, he started studying philosophy at Saint Petersburg University, graduating three years later. Another fateful meeting during those years was that with the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot in 1843, when she arrived in Saint Petersburg for her first tour with the Italian Opera Company. I didn't go to the festivities in the Sokolniki Park because I preferred instead to read Smoke (Дым) to the end.

." He produced both poetry and plays, his 1843 verse collection Parasha reflecting the influence of Russian poets Aleksandr Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov. I read [Paul Bourget's novel] Crime d'amour onboard a boat on the Mediterranean Sea, and I also liked it very much. Such meetings served to promote Turgenev's renown outside Russia while also introducing the international intellectual community to works by many Russian authors. This attention on the part of the renowned writer was noticed and interpreted in a favourable sense for the composer, all the more so given that Turgenev expressed himself in the most sympathetic manner about his works, although he missed the most important of them — the quartet — because he arrived after the concert had already started" [9], The only way that Turgenev could then have heard about Tchaikovsky while he was living abroad (that is mainly in Germany before 1871) was from reviews in the Russian newspapers to which he subscribed (or which he had access to in reading-rooms), and it is quite possible that Laroche's articles for the Contemporary Chronicle (Современная летопись) on the premieres of the opera The Voyevoda and the symphonic fantasia Fatum in 1869 had caught his attention, especially since the opera was based on a play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky, a dramatist whom Turgenev thought very highly of.

Полное собрание сочинений и писем, И. С. Тургненв. Strange dreams at night: Madame Viardot and Laroche" [43]. He lost his charming but irresponsible father at the age of 16 and grew up mainly under the stern hand of his mother Varvara Petrovna (b. Lutovinova; 1788–1850). Such meetings served to promote Turgenev's renown outside Russia while also introducing the international intellectual community to works by many Russian authors. References to Ivan Turgenev and his Works.

He knew how to strike up a rapport with them, and wherever he went they all liked him" [2]. Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 58. . Nov' (novel; originally serialized in Vestnik Evropy), 1877, published in two volumes, Gerhard (Leipzig, Germany), 1877, authorized edition translated by Thomas Sargent Perry as Virgin Soil, Holt (New York, NY), 1877, translated by Ashton Dilke, Macmillan (London, England), 1878. Turgenev obtained his Master's degree in philosophy at Saint Petersburg University in 1842, but realised that in the reactionary climate of Tsar Nicholas I's reign a teaching post in that subject was impossible, and in 1843 he joined the staff of the Ministry of Interior, where he had some hopes of contributing to agrarian reform. Nadezhda von Meck was herself also in Paris at the time, and on 19 February/3 March she wrote to Tchaikovsky, asking him why he did not visit Turgenev and "his wife" Pauline Viardot. — 'I love him terribly, I worship him, but what would I have said to him? And although in later years Tchaikovsky made it clear that for him Tolstoy was "the greatest of all writers and artists who have ever existed anywhere" [7], and that while comparing his works to those of Turgenev in the autumn of 1884, his enthusiasm for the latter had started to wane a little (see the letter to Nadezhda von Meck below), this does not mean that he ceased to cherish Turgenev. Tolstoy would later argue that these sketches were Turgenev's most enduring contribution to Russian literature. 6 had perhaps been personally inscribed by the composer), and that he was going to send Tchaikovsky copies of all three of Pauline Viardot's song-albums which had been published in Saint Petersburg so far [10]. In short, I enjoyed myself" [23]. Shortly afterwards Tchaikovsky wrote a letter-article entitled The Last Days of N. G. Rubinstein's Life (TH 315) in which he noted how Turgenev, amongst others, had visited the great pianist and conductor in the final phase of his illness, and how these visits had been a great source of encouragement for Rubinstein, who right up to the very end had hoped that his health would improve. & C. Black (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1855, translated by Richard Freeborn as Sketches from a Hunter's Album, Penguin (Harmondsworth, England), 1990, translated by Charles and Natasha Hepburn as A Sportsman's Notebook, Knopf (New York, NY), 1992.