A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) is the work that made Turgenev famous and, according to legend, helped persuade Tsar Alexander II to abolish serfdom. Framed as observations made by a huntsman traveling through rural Russia, the sketches portray serfs as fully human individuals — their intelligence, dignity, humor, and suffering — at a time when they were legally property.
This second volume continues the collection. Both literary masterpieces and documents of social conscience, these sketches belong in every reader’s library. Download the free EPUB today.