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A Sportsman's Sketches
A Sportsman's Sketches ( "Zapiski ohotnika"; also known as "The Hunting Sketches" and "Sketches from a Hunter's Album") is an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition.
This work is part of the Russian realist tradition in that the narrator is usually an uncommitted observer of the people he meets.
Writing and publication.
Turgenev based many of these short stories on his own observations while hunting at
, in his house at Bougival near Paris. His remains were taken to Russia and buried in Volkovo Cemetery in St. Petersburg. On his death bed he pleaded with Tolstoy: "My friend, return to literature!" After this Tolstoy wrote such works as "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and "The Kreutzer Sonata".
Work.
Turgenev first made his name with "A Sportsman's Sketches" ("Записки охотника"), also known as "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" or "Notes