Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) — the first Russian laureate of the Nobel Prize (1933), an outstanding master of words, an impeccable stylist. Love is something Bunin understands as a fateful force, love as passion. Only moments belong to the lovers. True feeling for I. Bunin is always an unreachable peak toward which a person strives, but never acquires forever, for the rest of his life. That is the tragedy of human existence for the writer—an existence doomed not to fulfill its main purpose: to love.