The Torrents of Spring Author:Ivan Turgenev IT was the summer of 1840. Sanin was in his twenty-second year, and he was in Frankfort on his way home from Italy to Russia. He was a man of small property, but independent, almost without family ties. By the death of a distant relative, he had come into a few thousand roubles, and he had decided to spend this sum abroad before entering the ser... more »vice, before finally putting on the government yoke, without which he could not obtain a secure livelihood.« less