Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Vasily Polenov, Ivan Shishkin and Ivan Kramskoi. A young man of good education and no settled convictions is drawn into the movement to go among the peasants and rouse them, and finds the peasants uninterested and himself unequal to the work. Turgenev's last novel, written from Paris and attacked in Russia from both left and right. It is the coldest and most accurate thing he wrote about his own country. Sixty plates of Russian painting by Repin and Perov, from peasant gatherings to tea parties outside Moscow, supply the visual world Turgenev's radicals failed to reach.