5/13/2023 0 Comments 1862 turgenev novelNikolai who owns 5,000 acres and, at one point, “ 200 souls” has taken a young serving girl, Fenichka as his mistress. It probably wasn’t working under the old system either. Just taking a look around the estate, it’s clear that the new system isn’t working. The former owners then received taxes from those same freed serfs as compensation, but in the novel, which opens in May 1859, serf emancipation has yet to take place Nikolai, however, has freed his serfs already and has a useless manager for his estate. The estate is in disarray–in 1861, serfs were freed under Tsar Alexander II. They met at university in Petersburg and appear on the surface to share a great deal of common values, but when they arrive at the Kirsanov estate, known as Marino, the friendship unravels.Īrkady is welcomed home by his widowed father, Nikolai, and Nikolai’s brother, former army officer, Pavel. Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Children, perhaps better known as Fathers and Sons, is a look at the tangled state of Russian society through two young men, Arkady Kirsanov and Bazarov.
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