Ivan Turgenev

On the Eve Ivan Turgenev

On the Eve is the third novel written by the famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his novel Fathers and Sons. It is a story, set in 1853, of love during the Crimean War and at a time of social upheaval. The heroine, Elena, is a charming, serious and courageous young woman. She is concerned about justice, but this finds no outlet in her middle class world, until she is introduced Insarov, a man below her social status, but whose idealism matches her own. He becomes Elena's husband and changes her life.