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31.07.2018
polit.ru
Anniversary of the first Russian writer awarded Nobel Prise will be marked on the state level in Russia, according to Culture TV channel. The 150th birth anniversary of Ivan Bunin to be marked in 2020.
The government has made a proposal to celebrate the anniversary of the author of the Cursed Days and the Dark Lanes and other outstanding pieces of the Russian literature. The corresponding degree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The document underlines a great contribution of Bunin into the national and world literature.
The head of state assigned to set up an organizing committee and put together a plan of all necessary activities.
As the Russkiy Mir Foundation reported earlier, several constructions in the museum house of the writer are to be renovated in the Tula region by the time of the anniversary of Ivan Bunin. New exhibition halls are to be placed there.
The current museum interior revives rooms where Bunin’s family used to live: an entrance hall, a cabinet, small and grand drawing rooms, the mother’s room and a drawing room. The Nobel prize winner-to-be used to frequent this place where his brother – a painter Eugeni Bunin lived. The mother of the writer is buried here.
A monument to the writer was installed in Efremov during the 145th birth anniversary of the writer. Another statue of Bunin appeared 5 years before at the railway station square of the city.
Two years is left until the anniversary of Ivan Bunin. Let us remember, this year the 200th birth anniversary of Ivan Turgenev, another Russian classic is celebrated.
Russkiy Mir