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October 28] 1818 – September 3 [O.S. August 22] 1883) was a major Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as a major work of 19th-century fiction. Source: Wikipedia  \nAlso available on Feedbooks Turgenev:  \n First Love (1860)  \n The Torrents Of Spring (1872)  \n Home of the Gentry (1859)  \n Virgin Soil (1877)  \n Rudin (1857)  \n On the Eve (1860)  \n Mumu (1879)  \n The Diary Of A Superfluous Man and Other Stories (1899)  \n A Sportman's Sketches (1852)  \nNote: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks  \n[http://www.feedbooks.com](http://www.feedbooks.com)  \nStrictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.  \nElectronic License  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence (available at [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.1/au/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.1/au/)).  \nYou are free: to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, and to make derivative works under the following conditions: you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the licensor; you may not use this work for commercial purposes; if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the licensor. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.  \nDedicated to the memory of Vissarion Grigor’evich Belinsky  \nCh t 1   \nap er  \n“Well, Pyotr, still not in sight?” was the question asked on 20th May, 1859, by a gentleman of about forty, wearing a dusty overcoat and checked trousers, who came out hatless into the low porch of the posting station at X. He was speaking to his servant, a chubby young fellow with whitish down growing on his chin and with dim little eyes.  \nThe servant, in whom everything—the turquoise ring in his ear, the hair plastered down with grease and the polite flexibility of his movements—indicated a man of the new improved generation, glanced condescendingly along the road and answered,“No, sir, definitely not in sight.”  \n“Not in sight?” repeated his master.  \n“No, sir,” replied the servant again.  \nHis master sighed and sat down on a little bench. We will introduce him to the reader while he sits, with his feet tucked in, looking thoughtfully around.  \nHis name was Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov. He owned, about twelve miles from the posting station, a fine property of two hundred serfs or, as he called it—since he had arranged the division of his land with the peasants—a “farm” of nearly five thousand acres. His father, a general in the army, who had served in 1812, a crude, almost illiterate, but good-natured type of Russian, had stuck to a routine job all his life, first commanding a brigade and later a division, and lived permanently in the provinces, where by virtue of his rank he was able to play a certain part. Nikolai Petrovich was born in south Russia, as was his elder brother Pavel, of whom we shall hear more; till the age of fourteen he was educated at home, surrounded by cheap tutors, free-and-easy but fawning adjutants, and all the usual regimental and staff people. His mother, a member of the Kolyazin family, was called Agatha as a girl, but as a general’s wife her name was Agafoklea Kuzminishna Kirsanov; she was a domineering military lady, wore gorgeous caps and rustling silk dresses; in church she was the first to go up to the cross, she talked a lot in a loud voice, let her children kiss her hand  \nevery morning and gave them her blessing at night—in fact, she enjoyed her life and got as much out of it as she could. As a general’s","cbCaiviRC8QngvmO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiviRC8QngvmO","pdf",1148817,201,"English","# Chapter 1\n## Opening scene and arrival question\n## Nikolai Petrovich Kirsanov: family and upbringing\n## Education and shift from army path to civil service\n## Move to Petersburg and family circumstances","[{\"question\":\"What happens in the opening of Chapter 1?\",\"answer\":\"A gentleman asks whether Pyotr is still in sight at a posting station on 20 May 1859. 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