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The article presents the origin, the essence and various conditions of the concept of tragic love depicted by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883). Initially, the Russian was trying to catch the nature of love as a result of reading works of Russian and West European Romanticism authors - George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Alexander Bestuzhev, Vladimir Benediktov. In a later period of his life, however, Turgenev was perceiving the issue of tragic love also through the prism of his personal feelings and life experiences. The concept of tragic love created by the writer, pessimistic in its meaning, is a component of Turgenev’s world-view. It should be considered together with his thoughts regarding the specific nature of human existence.