Ivan Turgenev was born in 1818 in Oriol, Russia, in the bosom of a wealthy family. He studied at the universities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and later in Berlin. Since its inception, his work won the praise of the respected literary critic Vissarion Belinsky. Despite its origin in solidarity with the peasantry and promoted the emancipation of the serfs, subjects reflected admirably in his Tales of a hunter. Subtle observer in his novels Rudin Nest gentlemen, Virgin Soil and Fathers and Sons sharply portrayed society of his time and the psychology of his characters. A Russian and cosmopolitan, during his last years Turgenev lived alternately in Russia, Germany and France. He died in Bougival, near Paris people, September 4, 1883