Fathers and Sons, is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, published in Moscow. It is
one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century.
Arkady Kirsanov has just graduated from the University of Petersburg. He returns
with a friend, Bazarov, to his father's modest estate in an outlying province of
Russia. His father, Nikolay, gladly receives the two young men at his estate, called
Marino, but Nikolay's brother, Pavel, soon becomes upset by the strange new
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