What is the general idea of The Hunter's Notebook?

The work takes a hunter's hunting as a clue, and portrays a large number of characters such as landowners, housekeepers, mill housewives, town doctors, aristocratic intellectuals, serfs, peasant children, etc., which realistically shows the life of the people of all strata of the provincial towns and villages against the background of serfdom.

In the midst of this beautiful natural landscape, all kinds of tragedies occur, a silent indictment of serfdom.

The work also vividly describes the people's pursuit and aspiration for a better life.

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Background of Creation

The Hunter's Notes came out in the late 1840s and early 1950s. This was the period of transition of the Russian liberation movement from the aristocratic revolution to the bourgeois-democratic revolution, and it was a period of history when the social life of Russia was in a state of great transformation. During this period, the corrupt nature of the Russian autocracy was more exposed, and the crisis of serfdom was further deepened.

Since the 1920s, Russian serfdom entered a stage of crisis, which deepened continuously. Capitalism gradually developed in Russia. It had a violent impact on serfdom and gradually disintegrated the economy. It can be said that the disintegration of the serfdom economy was the root cause of the serfdom crisis.

At the same time, the peasants' struggle against serfdom intensified. According to statistics, from 1826 to 1850, 576 peasant riots occurred in ***. In addition, during this period, the commoner intellectual revolutionaries gradually replaced the aristocratic revolutionaries, and the progressive forces involved in the revolutionary movement continued to expand. It was under the profound influence of the Russian liberation movement that Turgenev created Notes of a Hunter.

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