Notes of a hunter. Turgenev I.

“They were rarely connected to such a degree, in such a complete equilibrium, two difficult to combine elements: sympathy for humanity and artistic feeling,” F. I. Tyutchev admired the “notes of the hunter”. In the “Notes of the Hunter”, Turgenev recreates the subtle, colorful matter of national life: poetry and prose, light and shadows are intertwined here in unique, bizarre images, and nature is a necessary background of almost every essay. Descriptions of the paintings of the life of pre -revolutionary Russia develop in the "Notes of the Hunter" into reflection on the riddles of the Russian soul.