First Love

“Know how to will, and you will be free, and will lead.”

Turgenev, who has gained an immortal place not only in Russian literature but also in world literature, tells about the dramatic love of a sixteen-year-old teenager named Vladimir to an older and very attractive princess. Wandering around the dangerous borders of love, this young man will taste the amazing aspects of life with this love. In this short but striking work, where emotions and sadness, psychological descriptions and transcendent feelings are handled very successfully, we witness the social conditions of Tsarist Russia and the people of the upper strata of the period.