One of the first editions of the memoirs of Vera Muromtseva-Bunina ‘Conversations with Memory’ is presented in the museum. The wife of the Nobel Prize laureate typed the text on her typewriter and made some corrections by hand later. These corrections help to retrace the stages of how the book was written. In addition, there are some fragments of the typewritten version that were not included into the final edition of the memoirs.
Vera Muromtseva-Bunina wrote her memoirs in the French town of Grasse in 1927–1928. At that time, her husband worked on his only novel ‘The Life of Arseniev’. Researchers point out that the book ‘Conversations with Memory’ were heavily influenced by Bunin’s style.
Vera Muromtseva-Bunina received excellent education, she was an intellectual. In the book “Conversations with Memory”, she wrote about Ivan Bunin as a person and described his character traits, she also described the first time they met, what her life with him was like, and the artists and intellectuals that surrounded him.
The memoirs are based on the detailed personal diaries (journals) of Vera Muromtseva-Bunina. The text is divided into several fragments that depict different events in the writer’s life: meeting the future husband for the first time, their numerous travels, and their life together from 1906 to 1910. The short final chapter recreates a very important day — November 9, 1933, when Ivan Bunin was informed that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Their life story begins in 1906, when they meet for the first time. Vera Bunina described her first interactions with the writer in a slightly humorous manner, as well as their mutual understanding and obsession with unknown places:
Vera Muromtseva-Bunina wrote her memoirs in the French town of Grasse in 1927–1928. At that time, her husband worked on his only novel ‘The Life of Arseniev’. Researchers point out that the book ‘Conversations with Memory’ were heavily influenced by Bunin’s style.
Vera Muromtseva-Bunina received excellent education, she was an intellectual. In the book “Conversations with Memory”, she wrote about Ivan Bunin as a person and described his character traits, she also described the first time they met, what her life with him was like, and the artists and intellectuals that surrounded him.
The memoirs are based on the detailed personal diaries (journals) of Vera Muromtseva-Bunina. The text is divided into several fragments that depict different events in the writer’s life: meeting the future husband for the first time, their numerous travels, and their life together from 1906 to 1910. The short final chapter recreates a very important day — November 9, 1933, when Ivan Bunin was informed that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Their life story begins in 1906, when they meet for the first time. Vera Bunina described her first interactions with the writer in a slightly humorous manner, as well as their mutual understanding and obsession with unknown places:
