Nature and Nidification “Journey to the Forest-Belt,” Rudin, A Gentry Nest

• Published in: Hunting Nature pp. 122 - 149
• Main Author: Hodge, Thomas P
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 15.10.2020
• ISBN: 9781501750854; 1501750852
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501750861-009

While in exile at Spasskoe-Lutovinovo, Turgenev endured a creative drought, and the summer and fall of 1852 were a time of intense self-interrogation. The publication of Notes of a Hunter left him restless and seeking new directions. Prevented from further hunting by the early onset of foul weather that autumn, Turgenev put down his gun and returned to literary and critical work, completing the Aksakov review but not the ill-fated novel Two Generations: his friends were displeased with the few portions he finished, and he ultimately destroyed the manuscript.¹ Very little of it was drafted when he wrote of his