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3. on October 22, 1870 on his ancestral estate
near Voronezh, Russia
died on November 8, 1953 (heart attack)
Aleksei Bunin, and his mother, were
descendants of several lines of old nobility
that included Russian landed gentry and
Luthuanian knights

4. continued homeschooling under the tutelage
of his elder brother, who was a university
student
encouraged Bunin to write and read Russian
classics such as Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai
Gogol, Mikhail Lermontov, Leo Tolstoy
published his first poem at the age of 17, in a
literary magazine in St. Petersburg

5. published his first short story 'Derevenski eskiz‘
(aka.. Country Sketch) 1891
an assistant editor of a local newspaper in the
city of Orel, Russia
started a correspondence with Anton Chekhov
1894 Bunin met Leo Tolstoy. He admired the
works of Tolstoy

6. during the 1900s Bunin and Gorky spent
several winters together on the isle of Capri
by 1900 Ivan Bunin had published over 100
poems
by 1899 translated 'The Song of Hiawatha' by
Longfellow was awarded the Pushkin Prize
and Gold Medal from the Russian Academy
of Science

7. His other translations included Lord Byron's
'Manfred', Tennyson's 'Lady Godiva', and
poems by Alfred de Musset
elected one of the 12 full members of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
witnessed the terror and destruction caused
by communists during the Russia
Revolution of 1917

8. was the eldest of Russian émigré writes, and
was regarded by all intellectual émigrés as
the last one writing in the high tradition
of Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov
was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1933
was arrested by the Nazis on a false
accusations of smuggling jewels

9. best known books 'Solnechny Udar' (A
Sunstroke 1927), 'Zhizn Arsenyeva' (The Life
of Arsenyev 1933), 'Lika' (1939), and'Tyomnye
Allei' (Dark Alleys, or in some translations,
Shadowed Paths, 1943)
most of Bunin's books were banned in Russia
under the Soviet censorship

10. later, every year in the morning of the 8th of
November, Bunin suffered from painful
traumatic memories about the collapse
of Russia
died of a heart attack in the morning of
November 8, 1953, in his apartment in Paris
and was laid to rest in the Russian Cemetery
at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois in Paris

11. Selected works by Bunin were published
posthumously in Russia, in 1956:
1961, during the "Thaw" that was initiated
by Nikita Khrushchev. However,Bunin's
eyewitness account of the Russian revolution
and the chaos caused by the communists,
novel 'Okayannye dni' (The Accursed Days),
remained unpublished in Russia until after the
collapse of the Soviet Union.