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Ivan Turgenev

Russian novelist mentioned in passing.

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First appearance: i

Ivan Turgenev shows up with force in IX. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Mentioned as the author of 'Memoirs of a Sportsman,' which Gontchareff thought had used up all there was to describe in peasant life.
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