Vizitki shabloni dlya taksi v formate vord. Rudin, by, published as a serial in the journal and as a book in 1856. The novel tells of an, Dmitry Rudin, a character modeled partly on the revolutionary agitator, whom Turgenev had known in in the 1830s. Rudin’s power of oratory and passionate belief in the need for progress so affect the younger members of a provincial salon that the heroine, Natalya, falls in love with him. But when she challenges him to live up to his words, he fails her. This article was most recently revised and updated by, Senior Editor.

Rudin is also full of nostalgia for the idealistic student circles of the 1840s. Works by Ivan Turgenev at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks). Rudin was the first of Turgenev's novels, but already in this work the topic of the superfluous man and his inability to act (which became a major theme of Turgenev's literary work) was explored.