The family members used French in everyday life, including prayers. The brothers had foreign governesses Ivan became fluent in French, German, and English. Varvara Turgeneva later served as an inspiration for the landlady from Turgenev's Mumu. Their residence was the Spasskoye-Lutovinovo family estate that was granted to their ancestor Ivan Ivanovich Lutovinov by Ivan the Terrible. Ivan and his brothers Nikolai and Sergei were raised by their mother, an educated, authoritarian woman. At age 26, she inherited a huge fortune from him. She spent an unhappy childhood under her tyrannical stepfather and left his house after her mother's death to live with her uncle. Ivan's mother came from a wealthy noble Lutovinov house of the Oryol Governorate. His father belonged to an old, but impoverished Turgenev family of Tula aristocracy that traces its history to the 15th century when a Tatar Mirza Lev Turgen (Ivan Turgenev after baptizing) left the Golden Horde to serve Vasily II of Moscow. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in Oryol (modern-day Oryol Oblast, Russia) to noble Russian parents Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev (1793–1834), a colonel in the Russian cavalry who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812, and Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva (née Lutovinova 1787–1850). Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, Turgenev's estate near Oryol
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