Stories of 1932–1952

3 hrs. 23 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Ivan Bunin

Narrator Ilya Prudovsky

Description

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was a Russian writer and poet, the first Nobel Prize laureate in Literature from Russia (1933).
In 1933 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for “strict mastery with which he develops the traditions of Russian classical prose.” After receiving the prize money, Ivan Bunin spent 120 thousand francs helping writers and simply emigrants.
He conducted the Second World War (from October 1939 to 1945) at a rented villa “Jeannette” in Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes). At this villa, the writer and his wife were hiding at least three Jews. In 2015, Ivan Bunin became a candidate for the posthumous title of Righteous Among the Nations.[9]
He devoted much and fruitful work to literature, becoming one of the main figures of the Russian Diaspora.
He died in his sleep at 2:00 a.m. on the night of 7 to 8 November 1953 in Paris. According to eyewitnesses, the bed of the writer had a volume of L. N. Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection.”[10] He is buried at the Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois cemetery in France.
“Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin — the last Russian classic who captured Russia of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” “…One of the last rays of some wonderful Russian day.”
G. V. Adamovich