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 Content
Table of Contents
Archives and Libraries
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The People behind the Autograph
Nikolai Karlovich Kulman
Natalia Ivanovna Bokii-Likhareva-Kulman
Nikolai and Natalia Kulman: Their Story
Gleb Bokii—The Case of Myth Creation
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 (1944–1952)
Bibliography
About the author
Vera Tsareva-Brauner works at Cambridge University, specializing in Russian language and translation studies. Born in St. Petersburg, she graduated from St. Petersburg State University, moving to Manchester, UK for her post-graduate studies. She edited the first full English translation of Yuri Tynyanov’s novel Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar and is currently editing a book on the challenges of translating from Slavic languages.
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