Volume 20, Number 16 · October 18, 1973
Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament
By Isaiah Berlin
On October 9, 1883, Ivan Turgenev was buried, as he had wished, in St. Petersburg, near the grave of his admired friend, the critic Vissarion Belinsky. His body was brought from Paris after a brief ceremony near the Gare de l'Est at which Ernest Renan and Edmond About delivered appropriate addresses. The burial service took place in the presence of representatives of the Imperial Government, the intelligentsia, and workers' organizations, perhaps the first and last occasion on which these groups met peacefully in Russia.
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