Summary
Ivan Sergejevich Turgenev: The Noble Nest
The Noble Nest is a novel by the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, originally published in 1858. The novel is partly autobiographical. The protagonist named Fyodor Ivanovich Lavretsky is a nobleman who fell in love with and married the flirtatious Varvara Pavlovna during his schooling in Moscow and went to Paris with her. The plot shows how, after he catches her in adultery, he leaves her and returns to Russia, where he falls in love with the modest and virtuous Liza Kalitina, the daughter of his cousin. The Nobleman's Nest became the most popular of all Turgenev's novels.
The novel has been adapted several times, the most famous of which is the Soviet film of the same name from 1969. U Jugoslaviji je 1965. bila emitirana istoimena TV-drama u produkciji RTV Zagreb.
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