A Sportsman's Sketches

A Sportsman's Sketches; also called The Hunting Sketchesand Sketches from a Hunter's Album, is a 1852 compellation of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. This, his first literary effort, garnered him some notoriety. He wrote this anthology of short stories in light of his own perceptions while hunting at his mother's Spasskoye estate, where he learned of the unfair plights of the peasants and the shameful acts of the Russian monarchy that controlled them.

Also, the continuous rancor by Turgenev's own mother, positively affected this work. The stories were initially distributed separately in The Contemporary before showing up in 1852 in book form. He was about to quit writing when his first story, "Khor and Kalinich", was generally welcomed. This work is a piece of the Russian realist convention in that the storyteller is normally an uncommitted onlooker of the general population which he interacts with throughout the story. This work in general, really caused Turgenev to be imprisoned at this mother's home, and also another reason is his some epitaph to Nikolai Gogol, while at Spasskoye.

On the other hand, it seems likely that this collection of stories, due to their popularity, helped start the end of serfdom in Russia.