Накануне

Roman Ivana Turgeneva "Nakanune" (1859) - tonkai͡a istorii͡a o li͡ubvi, svobode i poiske smysla na poroge gri͡adushchikh peremen v Rossii. Glavnai͡a geroini͡a - dvadt͡satiletni͡ai͡a dvori͡anka Elena Stakhova, umnai͡a, chestnai͡a i otzyvchivai͡a devushka, stremi͡ashchai͡asi͡a k bolʹshemu, chem svetskie razgovory i budni roditelʹskogo doma. Ee serdt͡se toskuet po nastoi͡ashcheĭ li͡ubvi, no ni skulʹptor Pavel Shubin, ni kandidat Moskovskogo universiteta Andreĭ Bersenev ne vyzyvai͡ut v neĭ otklika. Vse meni͡aetsi͡a s poi͡avleniem bolgarskogo revoli͡ut͡sionera Dmitrii͡a Insarova - strastnogo, zagadochnogo, oderzhimogo ideeĭ osvobozhdenii͡a svoego naroda.

Ivan Turgenev's novel "The Day Before" (1859) is a subtle story about love, freedom and the search for meaning on the threshold of impending changes in Russia. The main character is a twenty—year-old noblewoman Elena Stakhova, an intelligent, honest and sympathetic girl who strives for more than small talk and everyday life at her parents' home. Her heart yearns for true love, but neither the sculptor Pavel Shubin nor the candidate of Moscow University Andrey Bersenev evoke a response in her. Everything changes with the advent of Bulgarian revolutionary Dmitry Insarov, passionate, mysterious, and obsessed with the idea of liberating his people.