If you remember the first time you saw someone clearly, that first impression, that first shock, sometimes that first start, that person could be someone special and important to you, be careful! Well, be careful, what will happen! What comes will come. It changes you; sometimes it develops you, sometimes it destroys you, sometimes it makes you jump with joy. We opened this section by reading the moment Vladimir Petrovich first saw Zinaida. She is the adolescent hero of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev's novel First Love. Zinaida is the young woman he is passionately attached to. Hello romantic souls, I am here with another love story. And I am preparing to take everyone on a journey a little further into the past, towards their own first love. Come on, let the poplar winds blow over our heads, let those uncanny expectations of love shake our bodies, let the fortunes of those who love and don't love be told from daisies, let our hearts beat, let our nights not be peaceful, let the sound of the clocks tick tock tick tock, let them say the name of our first love. Yes, if you are ready, our romantic journey begins. But I want to warn you, not every moment of this journey will be spent with such excitement of love. After all, our author is an important part of the great 19th century Russian literature, the creator of a classic like Fathers and Sons, a powerful pen. This will be a journey of first love as well as a journey of literary history. Moreover, my dear friend Yekta Kopan, whom I love as much as he is a writer as he is a reader, whom we will listen to with pleasure whatever he tells us with his fluent speech, and who I cannot count how many watermelons he can fit in one arm, let alone two, will accompany us on this journey. I understand Yekta's concern, anyway, in every section of I am a Reader, I am racking my brains to think about what we say too much, how it is possible to both hide the secrets of the book and convey them to the listeners in their main lines. Even if I don't fully disclose them, careful listeners may draw some conclusions. But the pleasure of literature does not only lie in those secrets of these works. Since it is not possible to enjoy them without reading them in their entirety, let's continue on our journey without losing our caution! Like all first loves, this First Love will have its secrets, sir. Fortunately, as you heard in the conversation, it is no secret that this novella bears strong traces from Turgenev's life. We can talk about this. The author also accepts it, and even describes First Love as his most autobiographical work. The mother and father characters in this work, which he published only two years before Fathers and Sons, which left its mark on world literature and is considered the cornerstone of the nihilism movement, are based on his family, his family relationships and reflect their basic personality traits. In this case, it is possible to read our narrator Vladimir as Turgenev's youth. But let's not forget that the novella only lasts for a summer when the flow of life and his perspective on life change with the love he falls in love with, and that we only accompany this season of transformation. Yes, this novella has an autobiographical aspect, but it is not an autobiography. We cannot create a portrait of a fully-fledged Turgenev when we read it, but of course we can get clues about him. Turgenev was actually one of the writers of his time who remained somewhat overshadowed. The author, who produced works during the Golden Age of Russian literature, when Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy were prominent, was born in the city of Oryol in Russia in 1818 to a noble but impoverished father and a wealthy mother. The harsh attitude of his mother, who ruthlessly punished the serfs who worked on her land, formed the first sparks of the ideas he would later present in his novels. The injustices in this slavery system, where peasants who worked the land could only have enough produce to live on, deeply affected him. When Turgenev was 9 years old, the family moved to Moscow, and here he received a very good education from private schools and private tutors, learning German, English and French. He studied philosophy. Turgenev went to Berlin in 1838 and continued his education in Germany, and when he returned to his country, he passed the professorship exam at Petersburg University. However, he did not have the chance to teach, because German philosophy was not yet accepted in Russia at that time. However, Turgenev believed that Russia should also adopt a Western understanding. He first attracted attention in literary circles with his long poem called Parasha and thanks to this, he met the famous critic Belinsky. In the meantime, the calendars showed the year 1843 and this year would be a turning point for Turgenev not only in terms of his literary career but also in his private life. Because a very talented and charming mezzo soprano played the role