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Bezhin Meadow

Ivan Turgenev

Form
Form Short Story
Year
Year 1851
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 25

A hunter lost at dusk shares a night meadow campfire with five peasant boys trading ghost stories, and the ordinary Russian countryside turns mythic around them.

It was a glorious July day, one of those days which only come after many days of fine weather.
Bezhin Meadow, Ivan Turgenev

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