Evgeny Alekseevich Bunin was a brother of the writer. He was also born in the village of Kamenka. He graduated from a private boarding school in Yelets and studied at the Voronezh gymnasium.
Bunin E.A.
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1991 year
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27x23 cm
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‘He did not have any education, he spent his youth in the countryside; one of his natural talents was his imaginative way of thinking, good observation skills, and common sense. While he was young, he was quite careless like many other men in the Bunin’s family, but as he grew older and saw the farm going to wreck, he realized that it was impossible for his father to change, and in the future there was the risk of going bankrupt. He was 26 years old when he decided to get married. He married and chose a wife who didn’t come from a noble family, he needed a really hard-working and strong woman to support him in making his way in life. He used to say: “If you cut trees, choose the one you are able to cut”… In about 2 years after the wedding they opened their own small shop, and after 7 years they managed to buy an estate’.
Muromtseva-Bunina V.N. ‘Bunin’s Life’
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In 1893 Evgeny bought his father’s former estate in Ognyovka. Everything in this estate was put right. He worked really hard together with his wife, and the result was excellent: they had the richest harvest in the area. His famous brother also often visited him at his estate. In late 1906, after the peasant riots, Yevgeny AleksEevich sold his estate and moved to YefrEmov, where he bought a house. He worked at the local excise office. Recalling the day when she first met EvgEny AleksEevich, Vera Nikolaevna Muromtseva wrote:
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‘The door opened, and a plump, big-bellied, elderly man came in and looked at me carefully with his light blue eyes, his face resembled his older brother’s YUly face. I instantly guessed that it was EvgEny AleksEevich. I knew pretty much about him, as I was told a lot about his person; I knew that he abandoned his artistic skills and fully immersed himself in the agricultural activities; he was a good farmer, farming was his passion; actually he was a passionate person, with his own original way of thinking, who had always lived his own life which was not like other people’s, he spent his time farming, making portraits and writing novels’.
Muromtseva-Bunina V.N. ‘Bunin’s Life’
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But his literary intuition was amazing, and he could easily say who was the author of the work, making his conclusion by the style of writing. In 1909 when he was working on the story “Village”, Bunin talked a lot about that with his relatives, he said he wanted to write a long story. He knew much about the country life. Evgeny AleksEevich was telling him a lot of horrible stories. He shared with Jan his impressions about the life in OgnYOvka, recalled the peasant men, their cruel treatment with their wives. Evgeny AleksEevich had a lot of interesting observations to share. He was telling his stories figuratively, sometimes with humor.
He had his children, Arseniy and Margarita, only in advanced maturity, their mother was a peasant woman from the village of KrOpotovo, Natalia Andreevna, who served as their housekeeper. He gave his name to these children. After the revolution, Yevgeny AleksEevich was forced to leave his own house in YefrEmov and lived with his family on the outskirts of the city in a shack with an earthen floor. He earned his living by giving drawing lessons at one of the schools. On the way back home from the village where he tried to get some bread in exchange of this belongings and clothes, he froze in the street. He was buried near his wife’s and mother’s tombs, at YefrEmov cemetery, in a box made of old planks.
He had his children, Arseniy and Margarita, only in advanced maturity, their mother was a peasant woman from the village of KrOpotovo, Natalia Andreevna, who served as their housekeeper. He gave his name to these children. After the revolution, Yevgeny AleksEevich was forced to leave his own house in YefrEmov and lived with his family on the outskirts of the city in a shack with an earthen floor. He earned his living by giving drawing lessons at one of the schools. On the way back home from the village where he tried to get some bread in exchange of this belongings and clothes, he froze in the street. He was buried near his wife’s and mother’s tombs, at YefrEmov cemetery, in a box made of old planks.
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Bunin E.A.
Creation period
1991 year
Dimensions
27x23 cm
Technique
photography
Collection
Exhibition
2
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