According to the stories that circulated in Moscow and St. Petersburg he had completely lost his head, loudly lamented his approaching end, tried to push his way into the lifeboat, brutally shoving aside women and children, and finally, in full sight of the entire company, seized a sailor by the arm and offered him ten thousand roubles in his mother's name if he would save him, saying that he was the only son of a rich widow and could not bear to die so young.-Isaiah Berlin on Ivan Turgenev's alleged behavior whilst on a sinking ship.
Common Turgenev L. Dosto was right.
>>23361257What did Dosto say?
>>23361301One of the characters in Demons is a parody of Turgenev who is vapid and self-obsessed.
>>23361303Love author banter. Still have to get around to reading Demons.
>>23361257Tolstoy almost killed him a duel
chud phenotype
>>23361239There is literally nothing wrong with refusing to simp for women and offering consensual exchanges of goods and services.
>>23361388>chud phenotype >is actually a liberal tranny every time
>>23361239Excellent behavior. His life was more important and he knew it, and was proven right by his work.He's also a superior novelist to Dostoevsky, and almost an equal to Tolsoty.
>>23361239A little odd that all three Russian novelist had close calls with death. Turgrnev probably handled his one the worst, but then again he was a lot more normal than dosto and tolstoy
