Ivan Bunin was born on October 10 (22), 1870 into an old noble family in Voronezh, where he lived the first three years of his life. Subsequently, the family moved to the Ozerki estate (Oryol province, now Lipetsk region, Stanovlyansky district, Petrishchevskoye rural settlement).
Father Alexey Nikolaevich Bunin () mother Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Bunina (nee Chubarova;).
Until the age of 11, he was raised at home, in 1881 he entered the Yeletsk district gymnasium, in 1885 he returned home and continued his education under the guidance of his older brother Julius. He engaged in self-education a lot, being fond of reading world and domestic literary classics. At the age of 17 he began to write poetry, making his debut in print in 1887. Yuliy Bunin, brother of the writer (1860 – 1921) Bunin brothers
In 1889 he moved to Oryol and went to work as a proofreader for the local newspaper Oryol Vestnik. By this time, he had a long relationship with an employee of this newspaper, Varvara Pashchenko, with whom, against the wishes of his relatives, he moved to Poltava (1892). Varvara Pashchenko Bunin and Pashchenko
1895 I personally met A.P. Chekhov, before that we corresponded. I. Bunin with A. Chekhov I. Bunin, M. Chekhov, S. Lavrova in Yalta
In 1899 he married Anna Nikolaevna Tsakni, the daughter of the revolutionary populist N.P. Tsakni. The marriage did not last long, the only child died at the age of 5 (1905). In 1906, Bunin cohabited (the civil marriage was formalized in 1922) with Vera Nikolaevna Muromtseva, the niece of S. A. Muromtsev, Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Empire of the 1st convocation. Anna Tsakni Bunin with V. Muromtseva
In his lyrics, Bunin continued the classical traditions (the collection “Falling Leaves,” 1901). In his stories and tales he showed (sometimes with a nostalgic mood) the impoverishment of noble estates (“Antonov Apples,” 1900) The cruel face of the village (“Village,” 1910, “Sukhodol” , 1911) Disastrous oblivion of the moral foundations of life (“Mr. from San Francisco”, 1915). A sharp rejection of the October Revolution and the power of the Bolsheviks in the diary book “Cursed Days” (1918, published in 1925). The autobiographical novel “The Life of Arsenyev” (1930) recreates the past of Russia, the writer’s childhood and youth.
The tragedy of human existence in the story “Mitya’s Love”, 1924, the collection of stories “Dark Alleys”, 1943, as well as in other works, wonderful examples of Russian short prose. Translated “The Song of Hiawatha” by the American poet G. Longfellow. It was first published in the Orlovsky Vestnik newspaper in 1896. At the end of that year, the newspaper’s printing house published “The Song of Hiawatha” as a separate book.
In the summer of 1918, Bunin moved from Bolshevik Moscow to Odessa, occupied by Austrian troops. As the Red Army approached the city in April 1919, he did not emigrate, but remained in Odessa and experienced all the horrors of Bolshevik rule there. He welcomes the capture of the city by the Volunteer Army in August 1919, personally thanks General A.I. Denikin, who arrived in the city on October 7, actively collaborates with OSVAG (propaganda and information body) under V.S.Yu.R. In February 1920, when the Bolsheviks approached, he left Russia. Emigrates to France. During these years, he kept a diary, “Cursed Days,” which was partially lost, striking his contemporaries with the precision of his language and passionate hatred of the Bolsheviks.
In exile, he was active in social and political activities: he gave lectures, collaborated with Russian political parties and organizations (conservative and nationalist), and regularly published journalistic articles. He delivered a famous manifesto on the tasks of the Russian Abroad regarding Russia and Bolshevism: “The Mission of the Russian Emigration.” Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933.
In exile, Bunin wrote his best works, such as: “Mitya’s Love” (1924) “Sunstroke” (1925) “The Case of Cornet Elagin” (1925) “The Life of Arsenyev” (1933) and the cycle of stories “Dark Alleys” () . These works became a new word both in Buinsky’s creativity and in Russian literature in general. According to K. G. Paustovsky, “The Life of Arsenyev” is not only the pinnacle work of Russian literature, but also “one of the most remarkable phenomena of world literature.”
According to the Chekhov Publishing House, in the last months of his life Bunin worked on a literary portrait of A.P. Chekhov, the work remained unfinished (in the book: “Looping Ears and Other Stories”, New York, 1953). He died in his sleep at two o'clock in the morning from November 7 to 8, 1953 in Paris. According to eyewitnesses, on the writer’s bed lay a volume of L.N. Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection.” He was buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois cemetery in France.
In Bunin's works were not published in the USSR. Since 1955, the most published writer in the USSR of the first wave of Russian emigration (several collected works, many one-volume books). Some works (“Cursed Days”, etc.) were published in the USSR only with the beginning of perestroika. Screen adaptation of “Summer of Love” melodrama based on the story “Natalie”, director Felix Falk, Poland-Belarus, 1994 “Grammar of Love” film-play based on the stories “Tanya”, “In Paris”, “Grammar of Love”, “Cold Autumn” from the cycle “Dark Alleys”, director Lev Tsutsulkovsky, Lentelefilm, 1988 “Unurgent Spring” film based on the works “Unurgent Spring”, “Russia”, “Prince of Princes”, “Flies”, “Cranes”, “Caucasus”, “Sukhodol” , director Vladimir Aleksandrovich Tolkachikov, Belarusfilm, 1989 “Meshchersky” film based on the works “Natalie”, “Tanya”, “In Paris”, director Boris Yashin, Russia, 1995 “Natalie” film-play based on the story “Natalie”, director Vladimir Latyshev 1988
Bunin Ivan Alekseevich (1870 – 1953) Biography
Ivan Bunin was born on October 10 (22), 1870 into an old noble family in Voronezh, where he lived the first three years of his life. Subsequently, the family moved to the Ozerki estate (Oryol province, now Lipetsk region, Stanovlyansky district, Petrishchevskoye rural settlement).
Father - Alexey Nikolaevich Bunin (1827--1906) mother - Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Bunina (nee Chubarova; 1835--1910).
Until the age of 11, he was raised at home, in 1881 he entered the Yeletsk district gymnasium, in 1885 he returned home and continued his education under the guidance of his older brother Julius. He engaged in self-education a lot, being fond of reading world and domestic literary classics. At the age of 17 he began to write poetry, and in 1887 he made his debut in print. Yuliy Bunin, brother of the writer (1860 – 1921) Bunin brothers
In 1889 he moved to Oryol and went to work as a proofreader for the local newspaper Oryol Vestnik. By this time, he had a long relationship with an employee of this newspaper, Varvara Pashchenko, with whom, against the wishes of his relatives, he moved to Poltava (1892). Varvara Pashchenko Bunin and Pashchenko
Collections “Poems” (Eagle, 1891), “Under the Open Air” (1898), “Falling Leaves” (1901; Pushkin Prize).
1895 - personally met A.P. Chekhov, before that they corresponded. I. Bunin with A. Chekhov I. Bunin, M. Chekhov, S. Lavrova in Yalta 1900 - 1902
In 1899 he married Anna Nikolaevna Tsakni, the daughter of the populist revolutionary N.P. Tsakni. The marriage did not last long, the only child died at the age of 5 (1905). In 1906, Bunin cohabited (the civil marriage was formalized in 1922) with Vera Nikolaevna Muromtseva, the niece of S. A. Muromtsev, Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Empire of the 1st convocation. Anna Tsakni Bunin with V. Muromtseva
In his lyrics, Bunin continued the classical traditions (the collection “Falling Leaves,” 1901). In his stories and tales he showed (sometimes with a nostalgic mood) the impoverishment of noble estates (“Antonov Apples,” 1900) The cruel face of the village (“Village,” 1910, “Sukhodol” , 1911) Disastrous oblivion of the moral foundations of life (“Mr. from San Francisco”, 1915). A sharp rejection of the October Revolution and the power of the Bolsheviks in the diary book “Cursed Days” (1918, published in 1925). In the autobiographical novel “The Life of Arsenyev” (1930) there is a recreation of the past of Russia, the writer’s childhood and youth.
The tragedy of human existence in the story “Mitya’s Love”, 1924, the collection of stories “Dark Alleys”, 1943, as well as in other works, wonderful examples of Russian short prose. Translated “The Song of Hiawatha” by the American poet G. Longfellow. It was first published in the Orlovsky Vestnik newspaper in 1896. At the end of that year, the newspaper’s printing house published “The Song of Hiawatha” as a separate book.
Bunin was awarded the Pushkin Prize three times. On November 1, 1909, he was elected an honorary academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in the category of fine literature.
In the summer of 1918, Bunin moved from Bolshevik Moscow to Odessa, occupied by Austrian troops. As the Red Army approached the city in April 1919, he did not emigrate, but remained in Odessa and experienced all the horrors of Bolshevik rule there. He welcomes the capture of the city by the Volunteer Army in August 1919, personally thanks General A.I. Denikin, who arrived in the city on October 7, actively collaborates with OSVAG (propaganda and information body) under V.S.Yu.R. In February 1920, when the Bolsheviks approached, he left Russia. Emigrates to France. During these years, he kept a diary, “Cursed Days,” which was partially lost, striking his contemporaries with the precision of his language and passionate hatred of the Bolsheviks.
In exile, he was active in social and political activities: he gave lectures, collaborated with Russian political parties and organizations (conservative and nationalist), and regularly published journalistic articles. He delivered a famous manifesto on the tasks of the Russian Abroad regarding Russia and Bolshevism: “The Mission of the Russian Emigration.” Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933.
He spent the Second World War (from October 1939 to 1945) in the rented villa “Jeannette” in Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes department). He was extensively and fruitfully engaged in literary activities, becoming one of the main figures of the Russian Abroad.
In exile, Bunin wrote his best works, such as: “Mitya’s Love” (1924) “Sunstroke” (1925) “The Case of Cornet Elagin” (1925) “The Life of Arsenyev” (1927-1929, 1933) and the cycle of stories “Dark Alleys” "(1938-40). These works became a new word both in Bunin’s work and in Russian literature in general. According to K. G. Paustovsky, “The Life of Arsenyev” is not only the pinnacle work of Russian literature, but also “one of the most remarkable phenomena of world literature.”
According to the Chekhov Publishing House, in the last months of his life Bunin worked on a literary portrait of A.P. Chekhov, the work remained unfinished (in the book: “Looping Ears and Other Stories”, New York, 1953). He died in his sleep at two o'clock in the morning from November 7 to 8, 1953 in Paris. According to eyewitnesses, on the writer’s bed lay a volume of L.N. Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection”. He was buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois cemetery in France.
In 1929-1954. Bunin's works were not published in the USSR. Since 1955, he has been the most published writer of the first wave of Russian emigration in the USSR (several collected works, many one-volume books). Some works (“Cursed Days”, etc.) were published in the USSR only with the beginning of perestroika.
Museum of I. A. Bunin
Screen adaptations of “Summer of Love” - melodrama based on the story “Natalie”, director Felix Falk, Poland-Belarus, 1994 “Grammar of Love” - film-play based on the stories “Tanya”, “In Paris”, “Grammar of Love”, “Cold Autumn” from the series “Dark Alleys”, director Lev Tsutsulkovsky, Lentelefilm, 1988 “Non-Urgent Spring” - a film based on the works “Non-Urgent Spring”, “Russia”, “Prince of Princes”, “Flies”, “Cranes”, “Caucasus”, “Sukhodol”, director Vladimir Aleksandrovich Tolkachikov, Belarusfilm, 1989 “Meshchersky” - a film based on the works “Natalie”, “Tanya”, “In Paris”, director Boris Yashin, Russia, 1995 “Natalie” - a film-play based on the story “ Natalie”, director Vladimir Latyshev 1988
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Biography of Bunin 
Childhood 
Education 
First poem 
Independent life 
Life in Poltava 
Family life 
Literary fame 
Vera Muromtseva 
Honorary Academician 
Trips 
Revolutions of 1917 
Emigration to Paris 
Nobel Prize in Literature 
Life during World War II 
Homesickness 
Bunin's death
Self-education occupied an important place in the life of the future writer. He was interested in foreign and domestic classics - the best examples of literary creativity.
At the age of 17 he wrote his first poems - at this time he made his debut in print.
Soon he gets a job at the Orlovsky Vestnik newspaper. Bunin meets a young employee, Varvara Pashchenko. The young poet begins an affair with her - soon the couple moves to Poltava.
Ukraine, its culture and flavor, had a great influence on the writer’s work. He begins to actively write prose. Bunin visited the grave of Taras Shevchenko - Ivan Alekseevich liked the poems of the Ukrainian poet. He also translated them.
Traveling along the Dnieper inspired me to write the essay “On the Seagull”.
Over the past decade XIX century - early XX century, the collections “Under the Open Air”, “Poems”, “Falling Leaves” were published. Bunin meets Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.
The author's personal life was eventful. First, his wife was the daughter of a wealthy Odessa resident Nikolai Tsakni - Anna. The marriage did not last long. Soon the writer met Vera Muromtseva - she was also a writer and translator.
During the 1917 revolution and civil war he lived in Odessa. Supported the White Army. After the Bolshevik victory, he leaves Russia for France. Abroad maintains relations withpro-monarchy organizations.
In 1933 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The most famous translations are “Cain” by George Byron and “The Song of Hiawatha » Henry Longfellow.
He also lived in France during the Second World War. Continues creativity in a classical manner. In those years, “Dark Alleys”, “Sunstroke”, “Mitya’s Love” were written.
The literary portrait of Anton Chekhov remained unfinished. This was his last work. Ivan Alekseevich died in Paris in 1953.
After his death, during the Thaw, Bunin was one of the most published writers in the USSR. But not everyone printed. Some works became available to the reader only during Gorbachev's reign.
The main theme is an essay on the life of the people, people's relationships. The writer's prose is distinguished by subtle lyricism and psychologism. His works are closer to the Russian classics of Tolstoy, Turgenev, and not literature 20 century. The author wrote about the life of the nobility, ordinary people, about love and morality.
Slide 1
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin Forgetting about grief and suffering, I believe that besides vanity, there is a world of charm on earth, a wonderful world of love and beauty.Slide 2
Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois “Things and deeds that are not written are covered with darkness and are consigned to the grave of unconsciousness, but written as if they are animated...” Spiritual life elevated the writer above the chaos of passing life and immortalized his name.
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Birth: October 22, 1870, Voronezh His mother, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Bunina, nee Chubarova, later said that “Vanya was different from the rest of the children from birth.” Already in his infancy, she knew that he would be special, for “no one has such a subtle soul as he.” Grandfathers and great-grandfathers are well-born landowners. His father, Alexey Nikolaevich, a participant in the Crimean War, was an impetuous and careless man, leading a stormy life as a reveler and gambler. The mother was selflessly devoted to her family, children,
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Childhood and youth The future writer and poet spent his childhood and youth on the Butyrki farm in Yelets district, Oryol province. “Here,” he wrote, in the deepest silence of the field, among the richest in black soil and the poorest in nature, in the summer among the grain that approached our very thresholds, and in the winter among the snowdrifts, my whole childhood passed, full of sad and peculiar poetry.”
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First love At the age of 20, love came to him. Deeply, without a trace, his feeling for Varvara Pashchenko captured him. The girl’s father, a very wealthy and practical man, a doctor, was against marriage with Ivan Alekseevich, considering him “not a match for his daughter.” Varvara, like her parents, was scared off by Bunin's poverty. She rejected Bunin's proposal to get married secretly, but lived with him as a wife for almost 5 years. And at this time she secretly met with a young and rich landowner Arseny Bibikov, whom she later married.
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In 1898, Bunin went to Odessa. Here he became close to a circle of southern Russian artists, and many acquaintances appeared. That same year, he suddenly and quickly, after just a few days of dating, married Anna Nikolaevna Tsakni, the daughter of the publisher and editor of the Southern Review newspaper. The marriage turned out to be short-lived. The breakup occurred at the insistence of his wife. After the breakup, in 1900, Bunin had a son, who was named Nikolai. Bunin was very attached to his son, but could not see him often... This charming child died of meningitis at the age of five. Bunin had no more children.
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The beginning of Bunin the prose writer’s work was truly noticed after “Antonov Apples”. And at the beginning of 1901, a collection of poems “Falling Leaves” was published. He was awarded the highest literary award three times, and in 1909 he was elected an honorary member of the academy. “When I write a review about your book of poems, I... will compare you with Levitan, whom I also love dearly, whom I always enjoy... What would I wish... for your pen - firmness! Those. - cheerful spirit, spiritual joy. If only you could shine one day, in poetry, and make people smile merrily,” wrote M. Gorky about “Falling Leaves.”
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Happy marriage An important event in Bunin’s life was a meeting in 1907 with “a quiet young lady with Leonardo eyes from an old noble family” - Vera Nikolaevna Muromtseva. She graduated from the natural sciences department of the Higher Women's Courses, spoke foreign languages, and was fond of literature and art. Vera Nikolaevna managed to create an atmosphere of love, care, attention, modest selflessness, in which Bunin lived so well and worked calmly. Thirty-seven-year-old Bunin finally found family happiness.
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Revolution. “Cursed Days” In the spring of 1918, together with his wife, Bunin left Moscow for the south of Russia. “Just think,” he was indignant in Odessa, “I still have to explain to one, then to another, exactly why I won’t go serve in some Proletkult! It is also necessary to prove that it is impossible to sit next to the emergency room, where almost every hour someone’s head is broken, and educate about “the latest achievements in the instrumentation of poetry...”. In January 1918, while still in Moscow, Bunin began keeping a diary and continued it in Odessa; From the diary entries, the book “Cursed Days” was born, published in the 20s already in exile.
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Emigration “I don't want to become an emigrant. For me there is a lot of humiliation in this. I am too Russian to flee from my land,” wrote Bunin. The decision to leave Russia did not come easily. Ivan Alekseevich hesitated and delayed. But “... having become convinced that our further resistance threatens us only with fruitless, senseless death, we left for a foreign land.” At the beginning of February 1920, he and his wife left red Odessa on the French steamship Sparta.
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Nobel Prize The memory of his homeland fueled his work all his life. In Grasse, a small town near Paris, where Bunin lived for many years, his most significant works were written. Among them is the novel “The Life of Arsenyev,” for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
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War “We all took Russia, our Russian nature with us, and wherever we are, it is in us, in our thoughts and feelings,” wrote Bunin. The feeling of the Motherland was especially strong during the war with Nazi Germany. He did not leave the radio to find out the truth about the advance of Soviet troops, and then wrote down what he heard in his diary.
