Hero and the heroic in the critical reception of I. S. Turgenev's works of the 1850-1870s: pro et contra
The paper covers one of the problems of the Ph.D. thesis The hero and the heroization problem in I. S. Turgenev's novels. The object of the investigation is five novels by I. S. Turgenev whose main characters belong to the complex and contradictory personage types. These characters are the subject of the research. The author of the article tries to consider them as truly heroic personalities, their life and activity as displays of heroism.