A Sportsman's Sketches (also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote this collection of short stories based on his own observations while hunting at his mother's estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the injustices of the Russian system that constrained them. The frequent abuse of Turgenev by his mother certainly had an effect on this work. The stories were first published in The Contemporary with each story separate before appearing in 1852 in book form. This work is part of the Russian realist tradition in that the narrator is usually an uncommitted observer of the people he meets. The work as a whole actually led to Turgenev's house arrest (part of the reason, the other being his epitaph to Nikolai Gogol) at Spasskoye. It was also partially responsible for the abolishment of serfdom in Russia.
这部作品由二十四个短篇故事构成。这一组作品刻画了俄国优美的自然风光、描述了庄园地主与农奴的生活、揭下了地主文明的假面具、暴露出他们野蛮残忍的本性。与此同时，对于备受欺凌的劳动人民，作者给予了深切的同情。在那样的一个年代，屠格涅夫通过《猎人笔记》发出了自己的呼声，批判了残暴自私的地主阶层，并赞美了勤劳热情、富有聪明才智的农奴们。