1843 Meets Pauline Viardot and publishes Parasha at his own expense
1847-52 Begins publishing a series of short sketches of Russian village life that are collected under the title Notes of a Hunter (sometimes translated as A Sportsman's Sketches) in 1852
- "Diary of a Superfluous Man" is published. Finishes A Month in the Country
- Rudin and Faust
- "Asya"
- A Nest of Gentlefolk (also translated as Liza and A Home of the Gentry)
1860 On the Eve, First Love and the essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote"
- Writes Fathers and Sons
- Fathers and Sons published
- Smoke
- A Lear of the Steppes
- Torrents of Spring
- Virgin Soil
- The play A Month in the Country is staged
- Turgenev dies on 3rd September from spinal cancer