Ivan Turgenev's prose works, along with the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, are among the highlights of Russian realism in the 19th century. In addition to poetry, dramas, and his famous novel "Fathers and Sons," Turgenev wrote numerous short stories. His melancholic love stories hold a special place among them. This volume contains the most beautiful of these tales. The starting point is usually a psychologically unique case, often with a mysterious component, which had little room in the novels of this critic of society.