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Nakanune
Russian fiction
Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fathers and sons
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Social conditions
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Fiction
The story revolves around Elena, a girl with a hypochondriacal mother and an idle father, a retired guards lieutenant with a mistress. On the eve of the Crimean War, Elena is pursued by a free-spirited sculptor (Shubin) and a serious-minded student (Berzyenev). But when Berzyenev's revolutionary Bul…
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