num_pages: 208
description: Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". I t was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky in 1969.The novel's protagonist is Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobleman who shares many traits with Turgenev. The child of a distant, Anglophile father and a serf mother who dies when he is very young, Lavretsky is brought up at his family's country estate home by a severe maiden aunt, often thought to be based on Turgenev's own mother who was known for her cruelty.
language: English
title: Home of the Gentry
titlecomplete: Home of the Gentry (Penguin Classics)
characters: Agafya Vlasyevna, Fyodor Ivanovych Lavretsky, Varvara Pavlovna Lavretsky, Marfa Timofeyevna Pestov, Vladimir Nikolaich Panshin, Sergey Petrovich Gedeonovsky, Mikhalevich, Christopher Theodore Gottlieb Lemm, Elena Mikhaylovna, Elizaveta Mikhaylovna, Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin, Glafira Petrovna
genres: Russia, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 4619
places: Russia
publisher: Penguin Classics