Vera Muromtseva-Bunina

Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia (The British Library)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

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Born 1 Oct 1881
Died 3 Apr 1961
Activity c. 1906-1961

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Born in Russia
Active in France

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Vera Nikolaevna Bunina (née Muromtseva, 1881-1961) is probably better known as a wife of Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), the first Russian Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (1933). She was, however, an author in her own right, even though her creativity was notably linked to the most difficult periods of her life as Bunin’s lover, wife and widow.

Vera Muromtseva was born in Moscow to a noble Russian family that traced its history to XVII century and believed to originate from the town of Murom, immortalised in folklore by Ilya Muromets, a hero of many East Slavonic epic poems. Muromtseva’s father, an engineer by training, played an active role in Moscow local governing bodies, but the family member best known to the n…

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Citation: Rogatchevskaia, Ekaterina. "Vera Muromtseva-Bunina". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 December 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13612, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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