208 years ago the famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev was born.
Some interesting facts:
Turgenev had an unusual way of dressing. Bright ties, gold buttons - all this seemed quite pretentious by the fashionable standards of that time.
The writer had a high and thin voice that did not match his heroic physique, which he was very ashamed of.
Turgenev once provoked Leo Tolstoy to a pistol duel. Fortunately, that didn't happen.
As Afanasy Pat said, Turgenev laughed like a madman: at the top of his voice, clutching his stomach, falling on all fours and rolling on the floor.
Throughout his life, Ivan Sergeevich actively supported the abolition of serfdom.
Turgenev was a true perfectionist. He changed his underwear twice a day, constantly wiped himself with a sponge soaked in cologne, and before going to bed he always put all the things in the apartment in their place.
For publishing one of his articles, Turgenev was arrested for a month. During this period he wrote his famous story "Momo".