[tur-gen-yuh
f, -geyn-; Russ. toor-gye-nyif] 
| I⋅van Ser⋅ge⋅e⋅vich [ee-vahn syir-gye-yi-vyich] , 1818–83, Russian novelist. |
| Tur·ge·nev (tŏŏr-gān'yəf, -gěn'-, tōōr-gyě'nyĭf) Russian writer whose works include the collection of stories A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), plays, such as A Month in the Country (1850), and novels, most notably Fathers and Sons (1862). |