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Which story began Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Sketches?
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Russian writer Ivan Turgenev.
The story that began Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Sketches is titled "Khor and Kalinych."1
Turgenev wrote this short study of two peasants he encountered during a hunting trip in the Oryol region and left it with the editorial offices of the journal Sovremennik before traveling abroad in 1847. Published with the subtitle "From a Hunter’s Sketches," the piece achieved immediate success and served as the foundation for the full short-story cycle, which was first published in 1852.12