Turgenev in St. Petersburg. Byly G., Muratov A.

and. S. Turgenev found Petersburg not in the magnificent glory of the Great City, but in the era, when the “eternal dream of Peter”, once bowed by Pushkin, formed that motionless environment that opposed any change, squeezed breathing. The whole advanced intelligentsia of that time shared a sense of hesitation and indignation, and yet St. Petersburg remained a heart in which the cultural life of Russia was beating. Turgenev was her integral part. In St. Petersburg, his friends and associates in Peru lived, were printed and put on the stage of his works. Here the writer met his beloved and Muse Polina Viardot, the heart affection for which he retained until his death.

about what he was for Turgenev Petersburg, from where he ran to feel the air of freedom and where he returned again with mysterious inevitable, tells him Book by G. Ya. Biana and A. B. Muratov.