The vague, crepuscular time; the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

то смутное, сумеречное время, время сожалений, похожих на надежды, надежд, похожих на сожаления, когда молодость прошла, а старость еще не настала.

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

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Middle age

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Ivan Turgenev

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Fathers and Sons

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Writer

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Russia Asia

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Turgenev, Ivan. "Отцы и дети [Fathers and Sons]." The Russian Messenger, 1862.

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Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons, translated by Richard Freeborn. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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