sobraniye sochineniy i pisem. Moskva-Leningrad, Vol. IX, 1965, pp. 7–76. This edition also contains The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Mumu, Asya, King Lear of the Steppes, and The Song of Triumpant Love. Turgenev, Ivan. First Love. New York: Penguin Books, 2007. Film adaptation "Pervaya lyubov'" (Первая любовь) USSR, Mosfilm 1968, 76 min A German-Swiss film adaption of Turgenev's novella directed by Maximilian Schell was released on 1970 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Anne Flournoy's 1983 short Nadja Yet is an adaptation of "First Love." Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina is played by Jenny Wright. Pyotr Vasilyevich is played by Stephen Payne. Vladimir Petrovich is played by a live-action housefly. Nadja Yet can be seen on YouTube. The film Lover's Prayer combining Turgenev's novella and Chekhov's The Peasant Woman was released in 2001. The Tamil Tamil language movie Sindhu Samaveli is an adaptation of First Love. In literal context, Sindhu Samaveli is the Tamil name for Indus Valley civilization Takarazuka Revue's 2014 Bowhall production "Nocturne - Memory of a Distant Summer Day" (ノクターン －遠い夏の日の記憶－) is a musical adaptation of the novella. Modern reception The story was featured at number four on Rosa Rankin-Gee's top 10 novellas about love via The Guardian and featured in a similar roundup by The New York Times in 2013. In 2020, an adaptation of the novella titled About Love was presented off-Broadway at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture. References External links Trans. Constance Garnett. Includes First Love along with two other Turgenev stories, Torrents of Spring and Mumu. Full text of First Love in the original Russian at Alexei Komarov's Internet Library 1860 Russian novels Frame stories Novellas by Ivan Turgenev Russian novels adapted into films