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List of places associated with writer Ivan Bunin released in France

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List of places associated with writer Ivan Bunin released in France


21.10.2020

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An article listing and describing Ivan Bunin's French addresses was published on the eve of the 150th anniversary of the Russian writer and poet, the Russkiy Ochevidets reports. The Russian-language newspaper of France recalled that this year marked one hundred years since Bunin's arrival in Paris. The writer lived in France for over thirty years, but all these years he wrote only in Russian.

In Paris, the writer and his wife lived in a house on the Jacques-Offenbach street from the moment of their arrival until the death of Ivan Bunin in 1953. Russian writers Alexander Kuprin and Konstantin Balmont lived not far from this house in different years.

For the summer, the Buninsused to leave for their dacha, information about the writer's favorite villas is collected in the "Russians in France" reference book. During his dacha stay, Ivan Bunin wrote "The Life of Arseniev", "Mitya's Love" and other famous works, and during his vacation he met with many Russian writers and composers.

It is reported that Bunin received a call at the Belvedere villa to inform him of the Nobel Prize. In 1973, the building was decorated with a plaque in memory of the outstanding Russian writer. Ivan Bunin is buried in the Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois cemetery.

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