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Key facts
- Author
- Ivan Turgenev
- Original title
- Отцы и дѣти (Otcy i deti)
- Language
- Russian
- Genre
- Political fiction , romance , philosophical fiction
- Publisher
- The Russian Messenger
- Publication date
- February 23, 1862
- Publication place
- Russia
- Media type
- Hardback and paperback
- Pages
- 226 pp (2001 Modern Library Paperback Edition)
- Preceded by
- On the Eve
- Followed by
- Smoke
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Ivan Turgenev
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Followed by
- Smoke
- Follows
- On the Eve
- Movement
- literary realism
- Narrative location
- Russia
- Dedicated to
- Vissarion Belinsky
- Image
- Fathers and Sons cover - retouched.jpg
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- title
- 父與子
- publication date
- 1862-00-00
- inception
- 1860-00-00
- Commons category
- Fathers and Sons (novel)
- language of work or name
- Russian
- copyright status
- public domain
- set in period
- 19th century
- number of parts of this work
- 28
- form of creative work
- novel
- first line
- — Что, Петр, не видать еще? — спрашивал 20-го мая 1859 года, выходя без шапки на низкое крылечко постоялого двора на *** шоссе, барин лет сорока с небольшим, в запыленном пальто и клетчатых панталонах, у своего слуги, молодого и щекастого малого с беловатым пухом на подбородке и маленькими тусклыми глазенками.
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Encyclopedic overview
Fathers and Sons (Russian: «Отцы и дети»; Otcy i deti, IPA: [ɐˈtsɨ i ˈdʲetʲi]; pre-1918 spelling Отцы и дѣти), literally Fathers and Children, is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, published in Moscow by Grachev & Co on 23 February 1862. It is one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of the 19th century.
Plot summary
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