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Did Ivan Turgenev ever marry?

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Ivan Turgenev never married. Although he maintained a lifelong, devoted relationship with the renowned singer Pauline Viardot, he remained unmarried throughout his life. He did, however, father an illegitimate daughter in 1842 with a peasant woman on his family's estate, and he later entrusted the child's upbringing to Viardot.1