Autographs Don’t Burn : : Letters to the Bunins, Part 1 / / Vera Tsareva-Brauner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Tsareva-Brauner, Vera,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

This book sprang from three handwritten lines by Ivan Bunin, Russia’s first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Found inside a first edition of Mitya’s Love, they led to the discovery of one of the largest corpora of letters written to Ivan and Vera Bunin by two people whose lives and legacy had been, until now, forgotten. These letters are now in the Russian Archive in Leeds (RAL), and are published here for the first time. The book also focuses on memory and history in its purest form, as narrated by witnesses who lived through the most tragic century in Russian history. Their stories involve Grand Dukes, Russian literary and political giants, as well as one of the architects of the Gulag, and show how these lives intertwined. It also sheds new light on the life and works of Chekhov, Gorky, A. Tolstoy, and Bunin.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Archives and Libraries -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The People behind the Autograph -- Chapter 2. The Exodus -- Chapter 3. Note on Translation of Letters -- Chapter 4. Letters of Nikolai Kulman to Ivan Bunin (1922–1935) -- Chapter 5. Letters of Nikolai Kulman to Vera Bunina (1928–1938) -- Chapter 6. Letters of Natalia Kulman to Ivan Bunin (1944–1953) -- Bibliography -- Index