Illustration for the short story The Counting-House by Ivan Turgenev (from the collection A Sportsman's Sketches), Pyotr Petrovich Sokolov, 1890s

“ i got up softly and looked through a crack in the partition. The fat man was sitting with his back to me. Facing him sat a merchant, a man about forty, lean and pale, who looked as if he had been rubbed with oil. He was incessantly fingering his beard, and very rapidly blinking and twitching his lips. ” —ivan turgenev. The counting-house (translation by constance garnett). Date: 1890s. Dimensions: height: 15 cm (5.9 in); width: 22 cm (8.6 in). Medium: cardboard, pencil, watercolor. Collection: State Literature Museum. The Counting-House by I Turgenev Illustration by P Sokolov