Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (9 November 1818 - 3 September 1883) was a Russian writer, one of the major works is novel Fathers and Sons. The 1840s and 1850s were hard times for writers and artists in Russia. The political system did not allow them to express themselves as they wanted to. The political system in Russia changed in 1855 when Alexander II took over power from his father Nicholas I. Writers and artists had more freedom from this time. In 1860 one of Turgenev’s most famous novels, First Love, was published.
