Arkady, the son of the forty-three-year-old landowner Kirsanov, who has just graduated from university, arrives to visit him. Accompanying him is a self-assured young man, a newly qualified doctor, Yevgeny Vasilyevich Bazarov. His father’s elder brother, Pavel Petrovich, and Bazarov immediately begin to feel a mutual dislike for one another. A few days after his arrival, Arkady introduces his friend to Odintsova, a young, beautiful and wealthy widow, in whom Bazarov immediately takes an interest...
