I. A. Bunin (1870–1953) is the first Russian Nobel Prize laureate, an impeccable stylist, and a master of Russian prose. The writer, with genuine pain for his homeland, talks about the impoverishment of noble estates, the cruel morals of the village, the complex psychology of the Russian people, and does this to perfection, with the plastic, objective depiction and accuracy of descriptions characteristic of his pen. Ivan Bunin’s attitude to the October Revolution and the power of the Bolsheviks openly expressed in the diary book “Cursed Days.” The tragedy of human existence, doomed not to realize its main purpose - to love, is in the collection of stories “Dark Alleys.”