About the book: year / Turgenev's "Breter" embodied a typical phenomenon of Russian provincial life of the 1840s - a phenomenon that arose partly under the influence of Pechorin, but differed from him in spiritual emptiness, mental squalor and vulgarity. Despite the well-known artistic immaturity of “Breter,” it remains indisputable that Turgenev created a vitally truthful, typical character in this story and gave him a correct social and ethical assessment.