Article

Name: I. A. Bunin and A. M. Fyodorov: On the History of Artistic Relationship

Authors: Dvinyatina Tatyana Michaylovna

Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation

In the section Study of literature

Abstract: The present paper is concerned with the history of the relationship between I. A. Bunin and A. M. Fyodorov (1868–1949), which up till now remains one of the least known lines of Bunin’s biography. Over at least a length of a quarter of the century (i.e. from their acquaintance in 1895 till the emigration in 1920) Bunin and Fyodorov kept constant artistic communication. This communication manifested itself in their mutual dedications, in choosing similar poetic topics and in the same texts of foreign poetry, translated into Russian by both poets, and in their interest in the East, which Bunin started to display thanks to Fyodorov.

Keywords: i. a. bunin (1870–1953), a. m. fyodorov (1868–1949), poetry, biography, landscape lyrics, poetic translations, east in russian poetry

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