Son: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was born on 22nd October 1870 in Voronezh province, in the South-West of the Russian Empire.

His early life was plagued by his Father's gambling habits which caused his education to be erratic and the family to lose most of their wealth.

Bunin published his first poem in 1887 in St Petersburg and later in Oryol he worked for the local paper and became its editor, handily allowing him to publish his own poems and short stories. There he met and married Varvara Pashchenk...