“Now we are going to the estate - me, Anna, Beba, we”ll go for a hunt. But surely, I”m also going to do some work there. There we”ll have anything we need, saddle-horses etc. - everything will be luxurious, we”ll even have a lady cook with us… I”ll be staying there for a week, not longer - I have some reviews to work on…”

“How can it be - she shows so much misunderstanding /…/ she is not able to understand my state, and she cannot be milder to me, she does not respect my nature and I mean nothing to her, what Anna does is unacceptable, nothing can be done to change the situation, and it”s even worse as I have to live with her for many years. I cannot say that she is complete fool, but her personality foolish and self-confident, as a child can be - this is what I”ve concluded from my long observations. /…/ She is /…/ selfish like a child and /…/ is unable to feel other person”s emotions /…/. It feels incredible for me to remember how many times and how deeply I opened my soul to her, my soul - full of the best amorousness — still she feels nothing, she is like dumbbell of some kind. /…/ She holds cheap any of my words or my opinions about anything — she doesn”t care what I think”.

“I”ve finished reading all the letters from the period of living with TsaknI. It made me upset: I thought things were different - I believed it was more Ivan”s fault. It became obvious from those letters: it wasn”t just about difference in attitude, or creative activities. Rather Anna herself didn”t love Bunin and wanted to get divorced… This is clear, they still were completely different in everything - their personalities, the environment they came from, and their nature - no points of interaction. It wasn”t that after the years passed IvAn Alekseevich forgave Anna, he simply forgot everything she did to make him suffer”.