Weighty waters. The day before. Turgenev I. S.

This collection included the novel “On the eve” and the story “The Vyshny Water” - two wonderful love stories. In the novel “On the eve”, a young aristocrat from a rich family is ready, without hesitation, to break with his family, society and the Motherland, in order to follow the lover - a Bulgarian, ready to give a life for the liberation of the homeland from Turkish rule. In the novel “Vyshny Water”, a young man traveling around Europe will have to make a fateful choice between a pure and bright feeling for a beauty-bride and a dark, witchcraft for a predatory “fatal woman”. Still contemporaries admired Turgenev’s talent to write about love smartly and subtly, lyrical, but without cloying sentimentality - and this talent, striking and attractive and modern reader, fully fills the works that have entered the collection.