Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents, is an 1872 novella by Ivan Turgenev. It is highly autobiographical in nature, and centers on a young Russian landowner, Dimitry Sanin, who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt. Written during 1870 and 1871, when Turgenev was in his fifties, the novel is widely held as one of his greatest.
US edition, 1906 (publ. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
Turgenev, depicted by Ilya Repin (1874)
Portrait of Ivan Turgenev by Eugène Lami, c. 1843–1844
Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, Turgenev's estate near Oryol
Turgenev receiving honorary doctorate, Oxford, 1879