First edition printed in Russia of Turgenev’s novel about the Populists of the 1870s. It was first published in the journal Vestnik Evropy in 1877, followed shortly afterwards by an edition published in Leipzig.

OCLC records copies, at Oxford, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Berlin, and Sheffield.

Kilgour 1226.

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