A virtual excursion to the literary museum of I. Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich

Turgenev

Sergei Nikolayevich

Turgenev,

the writer’s father

Varvara Petrovna

Lutovinova,

the writer’s mother

The Turgenev family has their

coat of arms

• His father Turgenev belonged to an ancient noble family, which took its roots from the time of Ivan Grozny monachy. His mother, Lutovinova, was a rich landowner.

“ My father, then still a young and very handsome man, married my mother for her money,” I.S. Turgenev wrote in his autobiographical story “First Love” half a century later. Although not very pretty, Varvara Petrovna was clever, fairly well educated and strong minded.

• On October 28, 1818 the writer was born into a noble family. He spent his childhood in the family estate of his mother - the village of Spassky-Lutovinovo, Oryol province.

The Turgenev family estate, the picture of Polonsky, 1821

The two-storey wooden house where I.S. Turgenev was born, stood at the corner of Georgiyevskaya and Borisoglebskaya Streets (now Turgenev and Saltykov-Shchedrin Streets), near the Cathedral of St. Boris and St. Gleb where the future writer was christened. This house was destroyed by fire in the 1840s when the Turgenevs were already living in Spasskoye (they moved there in 1821).

Here are the rooms where the family lived

• Turgenev left no record of any childhood impressions of Orel. His childhood memories are all associated with Spasskoye. From there he went to Moscow to study and then to St. Petersburg and Berlin. He returned to Orel as a mature man.

• Turgenev first tried his hand at writing in 1843 when he wrote the poem “Parasha”, and by the early 1850s he was already nationally known for his “The Hunter’s Sketches”.

Every corner of the museum is devoted

to the famous Russian writer

Here you can see family portraits,

their relatives and close friends

PAULINE VIARDOT

(1821-1910), French singer and composer. Daughter of Spanish singer M. Garcia. The author of romances, comic operas on the libretto by I. S. Turgenev.

From 1843 to the end of the writer's life was lit up with love for this wonderful woman.

You can find here all the issues of his literary works

People in Oryol are very careful about all the places associated with the life and work of the famous writer. Turgenev's name is given to the street where he was born, the regional theater, pedagogical Institute, high school, city library.