Ivan Alekseevich Bunin is known as the last classic of Russian literature, which captured Russia at the turn of the century. Although the writer himself considered himself more likely to be the generation of L. Tolstoy and Turgenev than the generation of Veresaev and Gorky.
Bunin Ivan Alekseevich. Biography in brief: genus origin
Little Vanya was born in October 1870 in Voronezh. When he was about three years old, the family moved to live at Butyrki farm. His clan was the oldest and once very rich. But all that remains of the heirs from his great-grandfather is a farm. The Bunin family lived modestly by noble standards. The writer himself recalled that there was not even excess paper in the house and that books were torn on cigarettes. This very upset him, since he did not have time to finish reading many works.
Ivan Bunin: short biography , childhood impressions
The writer believed that he owed the first knowledge of the language to the courtyards and peasants. It was their songs and stories that fed on his children's sensibility. Ivan spent all his free time until entering the gymnasium with former serfs, who once belonged to his family and now lived in neighboring villages. He knew the life of ordinary people thoroughly, which was later reflected in the novel “The Village”.
Brief biography of I. Bunin : home education
It was entrusted to a very unusual person. The teacher was the son of the leader of the nobility. He was well educated, played the violin, was fond of painting, spoke several languages. But subsequently he drank too much, relatives and friends broke all ties with him, and he became a wanderer. And only thanks to Vanya did he become attached to the Bunin’s house for a long time. The teacher very quickly taught the boy to read, he instilled in him a love of poetry, since he himself was not indifferent to it, he also wrote poetry.
Brief biography of I. Bunin: district gymnasium and self-education
This educational institution did not leave any good memories in the boy's memory. The transition from a free life on the farm to the strict rules of the gymnasium turned out to be very painful for him. He began to melt literally before our eyes. And the first love even worsened his condition. At the family council, they decided to pick up the boy from the gymnasium. After a failed study, Ivan got a job at the editorial board of the newspaper Oryol Vestnik, first as a proofreader, then as a theater critic, and then became the author of editorials. Subsequently, his talent was formed on the basis of self-education and self-education. The writer’s unique memory and vivid imagination played a huge role in this.
Brief biography of I. Bunin: creative activity
In the first verses, Ivan Alekseevich, by his own admission, imitated Pushkin and Lermontov. Soon he quit the editorial office and went to Petersburg, and then to Moscow. There he met Balmont, Chekhov and other equally famous poets, writers, talked with them, composed a lot himself. There, confession finally comes to him. The first volume of the works of I. A. Bunin was published by the publishing house “Knowledge” in 1902. In the same period, he received the Pushkin Prize and became an honorary academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Brief biography of I. Bunin: emigration
The revolutionary impulses were not alien to the writer, but the changes that occurred in the country did not correspond to his ideas about how and in what direction the life of society should be refracted. In 1920, he emigrated from Russia. The rejection of the prevailing reality in the country, Bunin reflected in the work "Cursed days." The writer's work was highly appreciated and abroad. There in 1933 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to literature. Over time, his works returned to their homeland. The writer himself died in Paris in 1953 and was buried in the famous cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois.