Lev Shestov and Ivan Turgenev
The article presents a reconstruction of Shestov’s attitude to the Turgenev’s legacy. The author shows that Shestov has no such sympathy to this Russian writer as he expressed in terms of Pushkin. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Chekhov. It was unacceptable for Shestov to agree with Turgenev’s tendency to replace the courage to face the human drama with rational reasoning and literature. Shestov considers this weakness as a sign of superficial approach to the human tragedy. Nevertheless Shestov recognizes Turgenev as a genius Russian writer.