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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)

The success in Germany of A Sportsman's Sketches. 1854

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)

The success in Germany of A Sportsman's Sketches. 1854

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883)
The success in Germany of A Sportsman's Sketches. 1854
Autograph letter signed (‘Iv. Turgenev’) to August Viedert, Saint Petersburg, 8/20 December 1854.

In Russian. Two pages, 216 x 130mm. Provenance: Serge Lifar (1905-1986), stamp to upper left of p.1 – Sotheby’s, 10 June 2009, lot 107 (part).

Writing to his German translator to express pleasure at the success in Germany of A Sportsman's Sketches. Turgenev had hoped to see Viedert in Russia, but the latter's journey had evidently been posponed: 'I am pleased that my book is a success and that your work has not been in vain. – I am also pleased to think that at least German readers will read me in an elegant and correct translation – not like the French ones by the grace of E[rnest] Charrière'. Turgenev has returned to Saint Petersburg from the country, and is busy, having promised an article to both Sovremennik and Otechestvennye zapiski. He sends greetings to [Theodor] Storm, as well as two old Berlin friends, Bettina von Arnim and Varnhagen von Ense, adding his full address, and asking 'You still do not know when you intend to come to Russia?'.

Published in New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 1991, 18-19. August Viedert (1825-1888), of Baltic-German extraction, published his translation of the first part of Turgenev's Zapiski ohotnika (A Sportsman's Sketches) in October 1854, with significant support from the German author Theodor Storm (1817-1888).
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