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If you want to know what it was like to be in a Rhine gambling resort in the mid 19th century read Smoke.
The mix of people could no doubt be seen in modern Las Vegas but without Russian aristocrats, Lenin saw to that!
Turgenev is a master writer, this is I think not his best work, I like "Sportsmans Sketches" this is a personal thing, but this is like saying the modern Rolls Royce is not as good as the old ones, they are all brilliant.
Turgenev, a most human man, put Russian writers on the word map, they never left it since.
