Biography of Bunin Ivan Alekseevich

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Ivan Bunin was born in 1870 in the family of a nobleman, a former officer Alexei Bunin, who had gone bankrupt by that time. From their estate, the family was forced to move to the Oryol region, where the writer spent his childhood. In 1881 he entered the Yelets gymnasium. But he fails to get an education, after 4 classes Ivan returns home, because his ruined parents simply do not have enough money for his education. Elder brother Julius, who managed to graduate from the university, helped to complete the entire course of the gymnasium at home. The biography of Bunin - a man, creator and creator - is full of unexpected events and facts. At the age of 17, Ivan published his first poems. Soon Bunin moved to Kharkov to his older brother, went to work as a proofreader in the newspaper Orlovsky Vestnik. In it, he prints his stories, articles and poems.

In 1891 the first poetry collection was published. Here the young writer meets Barbara - his first love. The girl's parents did not want their marriage, so the young couple secretly leaves for Poltava. Their relationshiplasted until 1894 and became a source of inspiration for writing the novel "The Life of Arseniev".

Bunin's biography is amazing, full of meetings and interesting acquaintances. 1895 becomes a turning point in the life of Ivan Alekseevich. A trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg, acquaintance with Chekhov, Bryusov, Kuprin, Korolenko, the first success in the literary society of the capital. In 1899, Bunin marries Anna Tsakni, but this marriage is short-lived. 1900 - the story "Antonov apples", 1901 - a collection of poems "Leaf fall", 1902 - a collection of works published by the publishing house "Knowledge". The author is Ivan Bunin. The biography is unique. 1903 - Pushkin Prize awarded! The writer travels a lot: Italy, France, Constantinople, the Caucasus. His best works are love stories. About love unusual, special, without a happy ending. As a rule, this is a fleeting random feeling, but of such depth and strength that it breaks the lives and destinies of the heroes. And here the difficult biography of Bunin affects. But his works are not tragic, they are filled with love, happiness from the fact that this great feeling happened in life.

In 1906, at a literary evening, Ivan Alekseevich met Vera Muromtseva,

quiet young lady with huge eyes. Again, the girl's parents were against their relationship. Vera was in her last year, writing a diploma. But she chose love. In April 1907, Vera and Ivan went on a journey together, this time to the east. They all became husband and wife. But they got married only in 1922, in France.

For translations of Byron, Tennyson, Musset in 1909Bunin again receives the Pushkin Prize, becomes an honorary academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In 1910, the story "The Village" appeared, which caused a lot of controversy and made the author popular. Having visited with Gorky in 1912-1914. on the island of Capri in Italy, Bunin wrote his famous short story "The Gentleman from San Francisco".

But the revolution of 1917 was not welcomed by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. The biography of the writer is not easy. In 1920 his family emigrated to France. He was accepted in the West as a major Russian writer, became the head of the Union of Russian writers and journalists. New works are published: "Mitina's Love", "The Case of Cornet Yelagin", "Sunstroke", "God's Tree".

1933 - Bunin's biography surprises again. He becomes the first Russian Nobel Prize in Literature. By that time, the writer was very popular in Europe. Bunin was an opponent of the Nazi regime. During the war years, despite the losses and hardships, he did not publish a single work. During the occupation of France, he wrote a series of nostalgic stories, but published them only in 1946. In the last years of his life, Ivan Alekseevich did not write poetry. But he begins to treat the Soviet Union with warmth, dreams of returning. But his plans were interrupted by death. Bunin died in 1953, like Stalin. And only a year later his works began to be published in the Union.