The events of this novel revolve around a love story, in which political events intersect with love incidents without affectation, where Litvinov, a persistent young man who traveled to study, falls in love with a fiery aristocratic woman named "Irina," at a time when he was engaged to "Tatiana." , which represented the model of a kind, caring girl, and the novel presents a realistic picture of the life of Russian society in this period, and it also depicts to us the elements of human corruption in an honest portrayal.
The author of this novel is the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev. His writings were distinguished by his interest in the deep study of the human soul. He sympathized with various human groups. One of his most famous short-story works is a collection entitled "Memoirs of a Hunter," in which he described the miserable life of Russian peasants with extreme realism. The work became famous and was read by many intellectuals from different classes, to the point that it contributed to the abolition of the serfdom system, while his novel "Fathers and Sons" is considered... One of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, it described the nihilistic ideas that were widespread in Russia at that time.