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Ivan Turgenev
Russian writer Ivan Turgenev.
Ivan Turgenev never married, but in 1842 he fathered an illegitimate daughter with a peasant woman at his family's estate, Spasskoye-Lutovinovo. He later entrusted the upbringing of this child to the renowned singer Pauline Viardot, who was a central figure in his life.1