“Summer evening, a troika of coachmen, an endless deserted highway...”. Bunin's music of prose writing cannot be confused with any other; colors, sounds, smells live in it... Bunin did not write novels. But he brought the purely Russian genre of short story or short story, which received worldwide recognition, to perfection. This book includes the autobiographical story “The Life of Arsenyev”, stories from different years; “Cursed Days” and “Memoirs”, permeated with bitterness and pain for the fate of Russia - about Repin, Rachmaninov, Chaliapin, Tolstoy...