The estate in OzYorki passed to the BUnin’s family in May 1881 by inheritance after the death of Anna IvAnovna ChubArova, the writer’s maternal grandmother. The estate, located on the slope of a hill above the pond, consisted of outbuildings and a one-story house with a garden. It had more than 5 thousand acres of land, a large orchard with a birch grove behind it, and an avenue of silver poplars leading to the house. The house was made of wood, it stood on a low foundation, and its high roof could be seen from the surrounding garden. Large windows with colored glass at the top looked out on the garden, where apple trees, cherry trees, and two old pear trees with small fruits grew in romantic abandonment. In front of the house there was a tall fir tree — “cherished”, as the writer called it. Among the lilac bushes that descended to the pond, an old bird cherry tree grew — the shelter for the nightingales. In May, they were singing all nights long from its green thicket.
In the novel “Arseniev”s Life”, Ivan Bunin described the estate as follows: “…a cozy courtyard surrounded by old household outbuildings, an old house with wooden columns on its two porches, dark blue and purple glass in the hall windows…”
An interesting fragment of its description is contained in the story “Antonov apples”:
