Fathers and Sons is a novel dealing with the divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov, a nihilist who rejects the old order. Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists and the liberals sought Western-based social change in Russia. Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the first wholly modern novel in