Первая любовь
First Love
At sixteen, Vladimir falls in love with Zinaida, the young princess who moves in next door, and slowly learns whom she loves instead. Turgenev's novella, told by the grown man years later.
The opening
В комнате остались только хозяин, да Сергей Николаевич, да Владимир Петрович.
There was left in the room only the master of the house and Sergei Nikolaevitch and Vladimir Petrovitch.
Мне было восемнадцать лет, когда я в первый раз приволокнулся за одной весьма миленькой барышней; но я ухаживал за ней так, как будто дело это было мне не внове: точно так, как я ухаживал потом за другими.
I was eighteen when I had my first flirtation with a charming young lady, but I courted her just as though it were nothing new to me; just as I courted others later on.
Translation
- Constance Garnett, The Torrents of Spring (The Novels of Ivan Turgenev, vol. XI), New York, 1897Macmillan and Co.Garnett's complete translation, with the prologue and all twenty-two chapters.Public Domain
19773 words, about 152 minutes of reading.
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