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Nakanune follows Elena, whose frail mother and idle, retired lieutenant father set a conventional path for her. Before the Crimean War begins, Elena falls in love with the revolutionary Insarov, a Bulgarian with a revolutionary mindset. Their secret marriage shocks her parents, especially her father, who had arranged her betrothal to the complacent official Kurnatovski. Insarov suffers from pneumonia and only partially recovers. As war erupts, he and Elena attempt to return to Bulgaria, but he dies in Venice. Determined, Elena carries his body to the Balkans for burial and then disappears from the record. The story explores the clash of social expectations, love, and political turmoil on the eve of war.
First publish date: 1873
Genre: Philosophy/Ethics
Authors: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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