Nikolai is upset at the growing generational clash and distance from his son. Pavel has retreated to the family estate after an unhappy love affair. He also finds that his father is in a relationship with Fenechka, the daughter of his housekeeper-a relationship that is a minor scandal and a source of shame for Nikolai.īazarov’s radical ideas immediately offend Arkady’s anglophile uncle, Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov, who defends his own pro-European views and traditionalism. Arkady sees that his father Nikolai’s estate in poor shape, with preparations for the peasant emancipation threatening the family’s economic security. Bazarov considers himself a “nihilist”-a man who believes in nothing except empirical science and who acknowledges no established authority. Petersburg, bringing with him a radical friend, Evgeny Bazarov, who plans to be a doctor. He left the country in the 1860s, and died in France in 1883.Īrkady Nikolaevich Kirsanov returns home from the university in St. Throughout his life, he was a liberal critic of the tsarist system’s more troubling aspects, and an ardent supporter of Western Europe as a model for Russia.
Petersburg universities, and also studied at the University of Berlin. Turgenev was born into a noble family in 1831 in the city of Oryol he attended Moscow and St. Ivan Turgenev, a prolific Russian novelist and short story writer, was a significant contributor to the literary canon.
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