First Love: A 16-Year-Old Man Falls In Love With A 21-Year-Old Woman

Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina, a beautiful 21-year-old woman, staying with her mother, Princess Zasyekina, in a wing of the manor. This family, as with many of the Russian minor nobility with royal ties of that time, were only afforded a degree of respectability because of their titles; the Zasyekins, in the case of this story, are a very poor family. The young Vladimir falls irretrievably in love with Zinaida, who has a set of several other (socially more eligible) suitors whom he joins in their difficult and often fruitless search for the young lady's favour.

• | Author: Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jan 12, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 92 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1542497043
• | ISBN-13: 9781542497046