On the Eve

On the Eve is the third novel written by the famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev best known for his novel Fathers and Sons. It is a story set in 1853 of love during the Crimean War and at a time of social upheaval. The heroine Elena is a charming serious and courageous young woman. She is concerned about justice but this finds no outlet in her middle class world until she is introduced Insarov a man below her social status but whose idealism matches her own. He becomes Elena's husband and changes her life.