by Ivan Turgenev
Translated by Constance Garnett
Shortened version for broadcasting adapted and produced by Barbara Burnham
Cast
(Leon Quanermaine broadcasts by permission of H. M. Tennenl , Lid.)
The scene is on Islayev's estate at the end of the last century
Of the three great Russian novelists of the last century-Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev — Turgenev was the first to be discovered and acclaimed by Western Europe. Then Tolstoy and, after him, Dostoevsky dawned on the intellectual horizon and fickle intellectuals forgot their earliest love. Admittedly Turgenev lacks the tremendous power and insight of his two great contemporaries, but he has a more delicate, a more poetic touch.