Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) was the first Russian Nobel Prize laureate (1933), an outstanding master of words and a flawless stylist. For the writer, love is understood as a fatal force—love as passion. Only moments belong to the lovers. For I. Bunin, true feeling is always an unreachable peak that a person strives for but never possesses for good, for the rest of their days. That is why human existence is tragic in this writer’s view—doomed to fail to realize its main purpose: to love.