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Ivan Bunin, the first Russian poet and writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, was born in Voronezh to an impoverished noble family.
We always only remember happiness.
And happiness is everywhere. Maybe it is...
This is the autumn garden behind the barn.
And the clean air pouring through the window
Because his parents struggled to make ends meet, he began living independently early. He worked in newspapers and government offices, frequently changing cities.
He became fascinated with writing poetry as a child. Critics described Bunin's early works as "too correct and smooth." However, by the age of 20, he had already developed his own poetic intonation and "a figurative, unborrowed language."
The smell of peasant brew is there, the fires are crackling in the smoke -
And the sunset glows red in the cold
Richly orchestrated rhymes underlie Bunin's unique style: his poems can ring, hiss, and explode. And his descriptions of landscapes are invariably tinged with powerful emotion.
Bunin's most productive period as a poet was between 1915 and 1917: 186 poems. This represents a fifth of his entire poetic output.
He perceived the revolution as the beginning of Russia's collapse. He emigrated to France, where he virtually fell silent as a poet and began speaking as a writer.
Why a commissar, why a tribunal, and not just a court? It's all because only under the protection of such sacred revolutionary words can one so boldly walk knee-deep in blood.
In 1933 got The Nobel Prize "for the rigorous mastery with which he has developed the traditions of classical Russian prose." Due to his poverty, he was unable to pay the couriers who delivered congratulatory telegrams. However, he donated most of the money he received to those in need: in the first month alone, the Nobel laureate received nearly two thousand letters asking for help.
Our happiness, my friend, is like water in a seine: when you pull it, it swells, but when you pull it out, there is nothing left.
During World War II, he hid Jews in his home. In his final years, he was ill and in need of money. He died in 1953, at the age of 83.
