"Home of the Gentry" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev that was first published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. This novel was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century.

The story unfolds around Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobleman who shares many traits with Turgenev himself. Lavretsky, the child of a distant, Anglophile father and a serf mother who dies when he is very young, is brought up at his family's country estate home by a severe maiden aunt. This character is often thought to be based on Turgenev's own mother, who was known for her cruelty.

Broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, Lavretsky returns from Paris to his Russian estate. There, he begins to fall in love with a young woman named Liza, only to experience love and loss once again. The sense of loss and unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is destined to experience happiness only as something ephemeral and inevitably doomed.

On another level, Turgenev presents the homecoming of a whole generation of young Russians who have fallen under the spell of European ideas, which have uprooted them from Russia, their 'home', but have proved ultimately superfluous. In tragic bewilderment, they attempt to find reconciliation with their land.