Bunin Voronezh Biography


The catalog of the I. sites in the house on the Bolshaya noble Revolution Ave. 3 passed the first years of his life. I. Bunin could not recall from early childhood, although not once there was a desire to "at least find something in the void of memory of that time." In biographical records, I. Bunin recalled: “Then it seemed to me, and now sometimes it seems that I remember something from my life in Voronezh, where I was born and existed for three years.

But all these are free inventions, the desire to at least find something in the void of memory of that time. I see one thing quite vividly, something beautiful: I hide behind the receptionist in the living room door and secretly look at our mother on the sofa, and in the chair in front of her on the military: my mother is very beautiful, in a silk with a raised collar dress with a small neckline on her chest, and the military in the chair is dressed difficult and brilliant, with ducky epaulets, with orders, my crooks.

Father, General Sipyagin. " In other autobiographical notes, Ivan Alekseevich wrote: “I was born in Voronezh, I lived in it for three whole years, and besides I spent the whole night, but Voronezh was completely unknown to me, because that night I spent in it, I could not see him: I was invited by Voronezh student community to read at a charity in favor Twilight, in a snowstorm, at the station was met with champagne, he was a lot at the evening and before dawn was again taken to the station to the Moscow train already completely hopped.

And those three years that I lived in Voronezh were my infancy. ” In January, Bunin, as a well -known writer, visited Voronezh to participate in an evening arranged in favor of Voronezh fraternity. He writes about this in the story “Natalie”: “I ... came to Voronezh. The train came all the snow, smoking with snow from the blizzard, along the way from the station to the city, while the cabs carried me to the noble hotel, the lights of lanterns flickering through the blizzard were barely visible.

But after the village, this city blizzard and city lights excited, promised close pleasure to enter the warm, too warm room of the old provincial hotel, ask the samovar and start changing clothes, preparing for a long ball at night ... ". Bunina and his brother Julia were often reminded of Voronezh who came from there to Moscow acquaintances, in particular, writer Valentina Iovovna Dmitrieva.

In October, G. Voronezh appeared in the Bunin diaries of the war years already in a tragic context, due to the fascist occupation. The writer highly appreciated the work of his fellow countryman - poet I. Nikitina devoted to him a special article “Memory of a strong man”, printed in Bunin, admired the poet’s poems and sincerely loved him as a man: “He is among those great ones who created the whole peculiar warehouse of Russian literature, its great artistry, its strong simple language, its realism in the best sense of the word.” After a long stay in the province of I.

Bunin in and GG. Bunin gives Eertel the first collection of his stories “To the End of the World”, released in G. In response, A. Ertel wrote: “Of course, you will believe me that the stories collected in this book have brought me true and great pleasure. It is so nice to meet something fresh and young in the famous and boring planes of our domestic literature of the last time ...

I do not want and will not exaggerate the artistic significance of your work; But in them - undoubted and, in places, subtle observation, genuine poetic feeling, sincere and humane worldview ... With such inclinations, you can safely work and boldly count on achieving a brighter and stronger artistic individuality. ” Later, A. Ertel spoke with great praise about his poetic work: “...

I love your poems, simple, without the current extracts and supernatural stresses of fantasies and language. From your poems almost always blows the freshness and simplicity of our sweet nature. ” Bunin, for his part, appreciated Ertel's knowledge of the people and an amazing language in variety and beauty. In the city of one of the attractions of Voronezh is the house where I.

was born for a long time the location of the house where the Bunins lived, it was not known. The merit of the discovery of this monument of Russian culture belongs to the Voronezh writer Yuri Danilovich Goncharov, who wrote a book about the ancestors of Bunin. Solomin with the inscription: "In this house, an outstanding Russian writer Ivan Alekseevich Bunin was born on October 10 22." This is the third memorial plaque, the first two with the inscription: “There was a house in this place in which the famous writer I.

Bunin was born” were mistakenly installed on a neighboring house. In the middle of the XIX century. Germanovskaya, from whom the Bunin family rented an apartment during living in Voronezh. Fetisova, who converted him in the same year, turning him into a two -story one. In one of the outbuilding there was a grocery shop, in the other a tavern.

Bunin Voronezh Biography

During the Great Patriotic War, the Northern outbuilding burned down, and the South was very destroyed and restored in - gg.Currently, the editorial office of the literary and art magazine "Raise" is located here. Here is what the Voronezh poet A. Prasolov wrote about the Bunin’s house in a letter to his wife in December G. Bunin in the year. We examined the house from the street. I will describe it in detail.

The first floor is a brick with the semi -air openings of the windows, the second is a wooden, apparently restored after occupation. We went into the yard. Deaf, white from non -trampled snow. Here they saw the peculiarity of the house. The quadrangular - from a brick column, a sagging balcony, a romantic staircase romantic in its dilapidation, sculpting with zigzags along the wall - it leads to a small - upstairs platform with columns in the corners, the dead whip of a wild hops, narrow, like boozers, windows - a serf or a keyhole, very typical for that time.

And here there was a cry of a baby who was destined to go around Africa, Java, Sumatra, spammers with the ocean in order to leave Russia forever and take it away in memory such as it only in this immeasurably deep memory and could then remain - an island in the sea of ​​emigration, cold and dead ... ”.. I. Bunin’s work is dedicated to the work of the Voronezhsky work Scientific-Littletherapists E.

Mushchenko, O. Berdnikova, T. Nikonova, O. Lasunsky, G. Kovalev, A. Kretov, N. Tsymbalistenko, writers V. Budakov, Yu. Goncharova, historian V. Boykov and others, where the monument stands, was called Buninsky. At the Faculty of Philology of the Voronezh State University of VSU, the Bunin Conference is regularly held under the leadership of E. Mushchenko, then T.

with G. Mushchenko - T. Nikonova - members of the I.'s Association in the funds of the Voronezh Literary Museum named after I. Nikitin stored a collection of letters from the correspondence of I. Bunin with the writers of the Russian abroad. This collection has 46 letters and postcards received by the Museum from the All -Union Culture Fund in the year of the writer's anniversary.

Among the persons who at that time were in correspondence with Ivan Alekseevich and his wife Vera Nikolaevna, were writers V. Nabokov and M. Aldanov, playwright A. Fedorov, M. Tsetlin - the wife of the poet and literary critic M. Zetlin and others. The pages of letters mention the names of many writers of Russian abroad and a number of Soviet writers. The events reflected in the correspondence explain many facts in the life of I.

Bunin of that period. In the Foundation of the Voronezh Regional Universal Scientific Library named after I. Nikitin, there are publications of Bunin's works at the beginning of the 20th century. There are also Bunin books in English, Italian, Polish and Estonian. By the anniversary of I. Bunin, a collection of works by the writer was published in the center of the spiritual revival of the chernozem region.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation issued a two -ruble coin with the image of Bunin in a series of silver coins called “Outstanding Personality of Russia”. Portraits of I. Bunin were written by Voronezh artists M. Akhunov, A. Bogachev, V. Sknarov, V. Losev, etc.