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In this article the comparative analysis of series of works by Ivan Turgenev from Sketches from a Hunter’s Album and from Folk Stories by Marko Vovchok, where the key roles were played by female characters, has been carried out. Having analyzed the characters in the categories of needlessness or as “weird characters” and having used Lancanov’s idea of Alien, one can assume that going out of the boundaries of behaviors defined by society, the women find themselves in no way out. Not only do they not meet the expectations of new time ideology but also they do not fulfill the classical model of a mother, wife or lover. The model of new, “weird” characters experiencing reality and in turn not being able to find themselves in real life, has determined considerably the concept of love in later work of Ivan Turgenev and the pictures of feminists by Marko Vovchok.