 Title page of the first edition, 1852 | |
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
|---|---|
| Original title | Записки охотника |
| Language | Russian |
| Published | 1852 |
| Publication place | Russian Empire |
| Text | A Sportsman's Sketches at Wikisource |
A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника, romanized: Zapiski ohotnika; also known as A Sportman's Notebook, The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) is an 1852 cycle of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition.
This work is part of the Russian realist tradition in that the narrator is usually an uncommitted observer of the people he meets.[citation needed]