Mumu
By Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
- Release Date: 2015-11-05
- Genre: Short Stories
I van Sergeyevitch Turgenieff, in the faculty of Philology at the University of St. Petersburg in 1837. In the spring of 1838 I went to Berlin to finish my education. 1was nineteen years old at that time ;I had been thinking for several years of taking such a course. I was convinced that in Russia one could acquire only some preparatory information, but that the resources of a perfect education were in foreign lands. A mong all the professors at the University of St. Petersburg at that time, there was not one who could shake my resolution. They, however, had the same convictions that I had. Even the Ministers of State entertained the same opinion ;C ount Uvaroff, who was Chancellor of State at that time, was wont to send young men to finish their education in German universities at his own expense. I studied at Berlin for about two years. The subjects of my studies were philosophy, ancient languages, and history ;I studied Hegel under Professor Berder with special zeal. In order to show how deficient the instruction was at the higher places of learning in St. Petersburg at that time, I will state the following fact :W hile I attended at Berlin the lectures of Professor Zumpt on Latin antiquities, and those of Professor Bock on the Greek lit Inthe preface to his works published by Sulaeff Bros., Moscow, 1869, vol. i.
