His planned adaptation of the Ivan Turgenev story Bezhin lug (Bezhin Meadow, 1935–1937) was halted during production in 1937 and officially banned, one of many promising film projects that fell victim to an exacting censorship system. Source: Internet
In the first letter of Ivan Turgenev 's short tale "Faust", the epistle writer mentions a portrait which had been seen as a portrait of Manon Lescaut. Source: Internet