Alexey Bunin (1827-1906), father of the writer IvAn Bunin, was born in the village of KAmenka, Yeletsky Uezd. He spent one year studying at the Oryol Gymnasium, where one of his classmates was a future Russian writer Nikolay Leskov. When he was young, he served in the administrative office of the Oryol Noble Assembly, he started his service there on June 30, 1843. His service was rather short and not too successful, he only managed to have a rank of collegiate registrar, which was the first step in the Ranking Chart. During the Crimean war, as part of the 65th YelEts Squad, together with his brother Nikolai he participated in defending Sevastopol, where he met and became friends with Lev Tolstoy. After returning from a campaign in the Crimea, he married the daughter of a junior captain Alexander ChubArov, LyudmIla. He didn’t like farming and housework, and spent most of his time hunting and paying visits to his neighbors.
Recalling his early childhood, his first impressions about people around him, Ivan Bunin wrote about his father:
Recalling his early childhood, his first impressions about people around him, Ivan Bunin wrote about his father:
