Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


image of old age

“The Old Woman Was Knitting a Stocking and Was Looking Sidewaysat us Through Her Glasses…”: Women’s Handiwork of Old Age in I. S. Turgenev’s Oeuvre

The article discusses the description of old ladies and old women in the works of I. S. Turgenev, daily activities of these characters, and the needlework which accompanies the image of an elderly woman in the writer’s texts. The main task of the article is to show how frequently old women’s handiwork – knitting – occurs and to identify the contexts of its occurrence in Turgenev’s oeuvre