2 Roubles I. A. Bunin

Reverse

The mirror field of the disc features a relief portrait of Ivan Bunin against the background of outline images of trees; on the right, there is a relief image of an apple tree branch; below, there is a facsimile of the writer’s signature and his life years – ‘1870’ and ‘1953’. Pictures provided by the Orel Region State-owned Cultural Organisation ‘Turgenev United State Literature Museum in Orel’.

Script: Cyrillic (cursive)

Lettering:
Ив. Бунин
1870 1953

Translation: Iv. Bunin

Engraver: Alexander Nikolaevich Bessonov

Designer: Andrey Anatolyevich Brynza

Edge

195 corrugations

Comment

Date of issue: 07 SEP 2020

Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) was a writer, poet and translator. He was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
His first poem dedicated to another Russian writer Semyon Nadson was published in the literary magazine Rodina on 22 February 1887. Bunin’s debut book ‘Poems (1887-1891)’ was published in 1891 as a supplement to the Orlovsky Vestnik newspaper.
In early 1901, the poetry collection ‘Falling Leaves’ along with the translation of Henry Longfellow’s ‘The Song of Hiawatha’ brought Bunin his first Pushkin Prize (established by the Russian Academy of Sciences). In autumn 1909, the Russian Academy of Sciences awarded Bunin with the second Pushkin Prize and elected him an honorary member. However, it was his short novel ‘The Village’ (1910) that made him famous and renowned.
Bunin totally rejected the October Revolution of 1917. Together with his wife, he left Moscow and settled in Odessa in May 1918, then moved to Paris in 1920. The famous writer captured his feelings about the coup in the ‘Cursed Days’ diary, published during his emigration.
Only one poetry collection – ‘Selected Poems’ – came out during Bunin’s exile. At the same time, ten new prose works saw the light, among which ‘Rose of Jerico’, ‘Mitya’s Love’ and ‘Sunstroke’.
Bunin spent 1927-1933 writing his most prominent work – the novel ‘The Life of Arseniev’. In 1933, the writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature ‘for his talent to truthfully and artistically recreate in prose the essence of the Russian character’.
Source: https://bunin.eletsmuseum.ru

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Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
2020 СПМД	3000	-	-	-	-	-	-

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