A Hunter's Sketches

📙 What did Turgenev do for the Russian people, meaning the common people? Unquestionably he did very much-both directly and indirectly. Indirectly-with the whole of his literary activity which raised considerably the moral and intellectual level of the Russian intelligentsia. Directly-with his book, A Hunter's Sketches, which initiated a whole literature dedicated to the people and their needs. Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin