""A Sportsman's Sketches V1"" is a collection of short stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and first published in 1852. The book is set in rural Russia and explores the lives of peasants, hunters, and other inhabitants of the countryside. Turgenev, who was an avid hunter and outdoorsman himself, uses his experiences to create vivid and realistic descriptions of the natural world and the people who live in it. The stories touch on themes of social class, love, and the relationship between humans and nature. The collection was highly influential in its time and is now considered a classic of Russian literature. This particular edition was published in 1895 and contains the first volume of the two-volume set.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.