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One of the most famous Russian novels about love, which contrasted satire with idealism and enshrined the archetype of the Turgenev girl in culture. 'The Main Books of Russian Literature' is a joint series of Alpina.Prose Publishers and the Internet project 'Polka'. The works in it are selected by contemporary writers, critics, literary scholars, and teachers. This is both an attempt to determine what the Russian literary canon looks like today, and a new look at well-known works: each work is accompanied by a detailed article by the authors of 'Polk'.