On MP3 disk. Read by Eugeny Ternovsky. "You know life well, my friend, and are able to tell the story of what you know, and that is the rarest thing of all. I wanted to be a literature teacher in order to interpret your books. " G. Flober, from a letter to I.S. Turgenev. Win.98.333 Mh. 64Mb Ram. IN RUSSIAN. Turgenev wrote "Fathers and Sons" as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the growing nihilist movement. The main character, Yevgeny Bazarov, has been referred to as the "first Bolshevik", for his nihilism and rejection of the old order.