Ivan Bunin — writer (nobel) with roots in the Russian Empire
Ivan Bunin was a Russian poet and prose writer who became the first Russian author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933). After the Bolshevik revolution he emigrated to France, where he spent the remaining 33 years of his life writing about the Russia he had lost — its landscapes, its peasants, its sensuality — with devastating precision.
Tracing the roots — Voronezh
Born in Voronezh in 1870 to an impoverished noble family, Bunin was the last great representative of pre-revolutionary Russian literature. His refusal to accept the Soviet regime and his decades of Paris exile made him the spiritual keeper of classical Russian culture for an entire generation of émigrés. He died in Paris in 1953.
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Voronezh. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"In youth, we do not think of death. In age, we think of nothing else."