--while the sun and wind played gently in its spreading branches; the bells of the Donskoy monastery would sometimes float across--tranquil and sad--and I would sit and gaze and listen, and would be filled with a nameless sensation which had everything in it; sorrow and joy, a premonition of the future, and desire, and fear of life.
Ivan TurgenevAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer, Poet
- Nationality: russian
- Born: October 28, 1818
- Died: September 3, 1883
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