Sketches from a Hunter's AlbumSketches from a Hunter's Album, Turgenev's first major prose work, is a series of twenty five sketches that capture the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia, fuelled by his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounterspeasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers. Each sketch provides a glimpse of love, tragedy, courage, and