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The motif of environments – forest and city – in the 19th century Russian literature has been common as a cliche, including a thematic structure regarding the word. As the barrier between the other world and this world, forest plays an important role in foreshadowing the theme, narrative, and character-motivation, while the city as a limited inhumane space is presented in negative ways, in general. In the latter, the protagonists usually lose their identities, get embarrassed, and go through a symbolic death. In the forest, a majority of main heroes go back to their home with a full enjoyment or spiritual refresh. Considering these clear-cut classifications regarding our main issue, this paper's primary purpose is to scrutinize the binary description and the thematic developments of forest and city in Ivan Turgenev's three short stories in his collection called A Sportsman's Sketches, observing a couple of classics from A. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and other related literary texts.