A Sportsman’s Sketches
short stories by Turgenev
Also known as: “A Sportsman’s Notebook”, “Zapiski okhotnika”
A Sportsman’s Sketches, collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev published in Russian as Zapiski okhotnika in 1852; additional stories were included in the 1870s. The collection has also been translated as Sketches from a Hunter’s Album and A Sportsman’s Notebook. The stories concern life in rural Russia, in particular the relationship between landowners and their serfs. Some sketches focus on the landowners or on episodes, drawn from Turgenev’s experience, of the manorial, serf-owning Russian gentry. Far more significant are the sketches that tell of Turgenev’s encounters with peasants during his hunting trips. His portraits suggest that, though the peasants ...(100 of 123 words)