Ivan Bunin was born in 1870 in the family of a nobleman, a former officer Alexei Bunin, who had managed to go broke by then. The family was forced to move from their estate to the Oryol region, where the writer’s childhood passed. In 1881 he entered the Yelets gymnasium. But they can’t get an education, after 4 classes Ivan returns home, because the ruined parents simply do not have enough funds for his education. The elder brother Julius, who managed to graduate from the university, helped to complete the entire course of the gymnasium at home. The biography of Bunin - a man, creator and creator - is full of unexpected events and facts. In his 17 years, Ivan published the first poems. Soon Bunin moved to Kharkov with his older brother, went to work as a proofreader in the newspaper Oryol Bulletin. In it he prints his stories, articles and poems.
In 1891, the first poetry collection was published. Here the young writer meets Barbara - his
first love. The girl’s parents did not want their marriage, so the young couple secretly leaves for Poltava. Their relationship lasted until 1894 and became a
source of inspiration for writing the novel Life of Arsenyev.
Bunin's biography is amazing, full of meetings and interesting acquaintances. 1895 becomes a turning point in the life of Ivan Alekseevich. A trip to Moscow and Petersburg, acquaintance with Chekhov, Bryusov, Kuprin, Korolenko, the first success in the literary society of the capital. In 1899, Bunin marries Anna Tsakni, but this marriage is short-lived. 1900 - the story "Antonov apples", 1901 - a collection of poems "Leaf fall", 1902 - the collected works in the publishing house "Knowledge" are published. The author is Ivan Bunin. The biography is unique. 1903 - Pushkin Prize awarded! The writer travels a lot: Italy, France, Constantinople, the Caucasus. His best works are love stories. About unusual, special love, without a happy ending. As a rule, this is a fleeting random feeling, but of such depth and strength that it breaks the lives and fates of the heroes. And here affects the difficult biography of Bunin. But his works are not tragic, they are filled with love, happiness from the fact that this great feeling happened in life.
In 1906, at a literary evening, Ivan Alekseevich met Vera Muromtseva,
quiet lady with huge eyes. Again, the girl's parents were against their relationship. Vera was a freshman, writing a diploma. But she chose love. In April 1907, Vera and Ivan went on a journey together, this time east. For all, they became husband and wife. But they got married only in 1922, in France.
For the transfers of Byron, Tennyson, Musset in 1909, Bunin again received the Pushkin Prize, becoming an honorary academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In 1910, the novel "The Village" appeared, which caused a lot of controversy and made the author popular. Having been with Gorky in 1912-1914. on the island of Capri in Italy, Bunin wrote his famous short story, “Mr. from San Francisco.”
But the revolution of 1917 was not welcomed by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin. The biography of the writer is not easy. In 1920, his family emigrated to France. He was accepted in the West as the largest Russian writer, became the head of the Union of Russian Writers and Journalists. New works are published: Mitin’s Love, The Affair of Cornet Elagin, Sunstroke, and God's Tree.
1933 - Bunin's biography again surprises. He becomes the first Russian Nobel Prize winner in literature. By that time, the writer was very popular in Europe. Bunin was an opponent of the Nazi regime. Over the years of the war, despite losses and hardships, he does not publish a single work. During the occupation of France, he writes a series of nostalgic stories, but only publishes them in 1946. In the last years of his life, Ivan Alekseevich did not write poetry. But he begins to relate to the Soviet Union with warmth, dreams of returning. But his plans were interrupted by death. Bunin died in 1953, as did Stalin. And only a year later his works began to be published in the Union.