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Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it.
Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it.
Approximate author period: c. 1834 AD · industrial
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- Ivan Turgenev
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- Approximate author period: c. 1834 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Ivan Turgenev: documented activity in 1834. Wikidata Q42831, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42831 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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