Ivan Bunin

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin October1601601870160November 1953 was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as Bunin brocade, is considered to be one of the richest in the language.

Ivan Bunin was born on his parental estate in Voronezh province in Central Russia, the third and youngest son of Aleksey Nikolayevich Bunin and Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Bunina . He had two younger sisters Masha and Nadya and two elder brothers, Yuly and Yevgeny. Having come from a long line of rural gentry with a distinguished ancestry including Polish roots, Bunin was especially proud that poets Anna Bunina and Vasily Zhukovsky were among his ancestors. He wrote in his 1952 autobiography

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