One night, the Tolstoy family sat around a round table. Turgenev happened to be visiting. "What a wonderful summer weather that is!" Madame Tolstoy suggested that everyone should talk about themselves

One night, the Tolstoy family sat around a round table. Turgenev happened to be visiting. "What a wonderful summer weather that is!" Madame Tolstoy suggested that everyone tell us about the happiest moment of their lives. Madame said to Turgenev in a friendly manner, "Ivan, start with you!" "The happiest moment of my life was when I first saw from the eyes of the woman I loved most that she loved me too." When Turgenev finished speaking, he fell into contemplation. Turgenev seemed to have been single all his life. But his group portrait of the "Lady Turgenev" is the most memorable image of a woman in the history of Russian literature.