Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev 
Mumu 

Mumu Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev – Mumu is the psychological story of Ivan Turgenev about the deaf-mute janitor Gerasim, who, due to the whim of his lady, was forced to part with his beloved and drown his only friend – a dog. The author sympathizes with the simple and kind Gerasim, and his mistress portrays tough, cynical and capricious. Other famous works, such as ‘Asya’, ‘Fathers and Sons’, ‘Noble’s Nest’, ‘Biryuk’, ‘Fire at Sea’, ‘Inn’, ‘Clock, belong to the author’, Three portraits, Strange story, Date, etc.Ivan Turgenev is an outstanding writer of the 19th century, a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of the Russian language and literature, and the author of philosophical and psychological poems, short stories, novels.

A propos de l’auteur

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: ) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short-story collection A Sportsmans Sketches (1852) and the novels Rudin (1856), Home of the Gentry (1859), On the Eve (1860), and Fathers and Sons (1862).These works offer realistic, affectionate portrayals of the Russian peasantry and penetrating studies of the Russian intelligentsia who were attempting to move the country into a new age. His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons, is considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.Turgenev was a contemporary with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. While these wrote about church and religion, Turgenev was more concerned with the movement toward social reform in Russia.