Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1918 — Where Turgenev Did Early Work. [ARTICLE]

Where Turgenev Did Early Work.

The estate of thfe Russian novelist, Ivan Turgenev, which is reported to have been sacked by peasants, lies in the low, marshy country of the government state of Toula. Some of the writer’s early work was produced there though toward the end of his life Turgenev spent the greater part of his time in Baden-Baden or Paris and scarcely visited Russia. The influence of his home, with its beautiful, prosperous estates and hard-driven peasantry, was never quite forgotten by him, and toward the muzhiks especially—the parents, probably, of those who have Just wrecked his property —he had always« an active sympathy. The neighboring capital town of Toula, set In the midst of agricultural lands, was constituted a gun factory by the Czar Boris Godunov, and still devotes itself to the making of army rifles.