Tourguenieff

Overview

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818–1883), Russian novelist, who lived in France near the singer Pauline Viardot and died at Bougival, near Paris, on 3 September 1883; he is buried in St Petersburg (en.wikipedia «Ivan Turgenev»; Henry James, «Ivan Turgénieff», on the farewell at the Gare du Nord). Marie writes his name Tourguenieff; the Mon Journal t.4 index reads «Tourguenieff (Ivan Sergueievitch), romancier : 165, 168, 186», t.16 «Tourgueineff (Ivan Sergueievitch), écrivain : 43, 47–49».

Relevance to Marie

• 1874. She hears the story, read from a letter of Ogareff to Makaroff, that Ogareff, in a fit of anger, had bitten Turgenev's ear (024.0204, 024.0230; see OGAREFF, MAKAROFF). On 26 October 1874 she grumbles about her grandfather «croyant conter comme Tourguenieff» but telling only obscenities (024.0416).
• October 1883. «Notre grand écrivain Tourguenieff mort il y a quinze jours est expédié aujourd'hui en Russie. Grande cérémonie d'adieux à la gare. Discours de M. Renan, de M. About et de Virouboff» (101.0470, 1 October 1883). (He had died about four weeks earlier, on 3 September.) The speeches of RENAN and of VIROUBOFF move her; she is proud to see a Russian honoured by «ces horribles, orgueilleux de Français» (101.0471). On 6 October she reads one of his novels at a sitting, in French, to judge the impression on foreigners, calls him a great writer, subtle analyst and poet, «un Bastien-Lepage» (101.0509–101.0511), and laments that abroad he is known mainly for his studies of society (101.0518).

References in Diary

• 1874-10-03/04 (024.0204, 024.0230); 1874-10-26 (024.0416); 1883-10-01 (101.0470, 101.0471); 1883-10-06 (101.0510, 101.0511, 101.0518)

Sources

en.wikipedia «Ivan Turgenev» (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Turgenev); Henry James, «Ivan Turgénieff» (https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/tag/ivan-turgenev/); Mon Journal t.4 and t.16 indexes.