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On Monday October 22 a monument to Ivan Bunin, a famous Russian writer, the laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature 1933 for his novel “Arsenyev’s Life”, was unveiled in Povarskaya Street. This event was timed to his 137th birthday. The monument was placed opposite the house number 26, where the writer lived before his emigration in 1920 in Paris.
The bronze figure was produced and donated to the city by the association “Bunin’s heritage” and the museum of classical and modern art “Burganov-center”. Its authors are Alexander Burganov, a sculptor and national artist of Russia, and Viktor Pasenko, a professor of the International Sculpture Academy. They tried to reproduce the atmosphere of devastation and despair that reined in Moscow in winter 1917 and that pervades Bunin’s “Cursed Days”. The simple figure of Bunin stands on a low granite base and looks into the distance pensively.
Progeny of Bunin, the chairman of the Culture Committee of the Russian State Duma Iosif Kobzon, public men, writers and ordinary Muscovites attended at the unveiling ceremony. They brought flowers and basketfuls of antonovka, which reminded of one of the best stories of the writer – “Antonovka Apples”. Guests of the Arbat Hotel that is located nearby could also participate in the unveiling of the monument.
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