n unchanged for a long time. From early morning the sky is clear and the sun does not so much flare up like a fire as spread like a mild pinkness. The sun - not fiery, not molten, as it is during a period of torrid drought, not murkily as it is before a storm, but bright and invitingly radiant - peacefully drifts up beneath a long, thin cloud, sends fresh gleams through it and is immersed in its lilac haze.This beautiful paragraph shows his devotion to nature as well as his incredible creativity when it comes to writing. His solace seems to come from nature as much as from meeting people. Through his meetings I believe Turgenev further comes to know himself better. He managed to turn every person he met into an interesting character, no matter how mundane and ordinary their life, and the greatest part about it is that not a single person is the same. Turgenev’s descriptions of people are full of explorations into their character and that allows Turgenev to better know the reasons for his life and his personality.There was a remarkable aspect of Turgenev’s morals that showed through in “Lgov” and “Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands” that was his ability to ignore people’s comments about others. He would always decide to find out what a person was like for himself. In “Lgov” he ignored Vladmir’s comments about Old Knot and he would still converse with him. In “Kasyan” he ignored his driver, and even though Kasyan managed to scare away almost every bird in the region, Turgenev still came to listen to him and to respect him. Turgenev makes the reference several times through his collection that as a hunter he has no compunction over sleeping in a barn with a peasant or chatting it up with a serf in a cart on the way to Moscow. Its apparent that he believes every serf is worthy of conversation and that it is good to meet as many as possible, but on the contra...
