# Ensimäinen rakkauteni

By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev.

"Ensimäinen rakkauteni" by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev is a novella first published in 1860. A sixteen-year-old boy falls deeply for his twenty-one-year-old neighbor, the captivating and capricious Zinaida. She toys with multiple suitors, treating the young narrator with sisterly affection while keeping her true feelings mysterious. As his infatuation deepens, he remains unaware of a shocking secret involving someone very close to him. Turgenev claimed this tale of first love was his most autobiographical work. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: Finnish
- Translator: Siiri Hannikainen
- Subjects: First loves -- Fiction; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Russian fiction -- Translations into Finnish; Russia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction

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