Ivan Alekseevich Bunin is a poet and prose writer, the first Russian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. “The fact that I became a writer happened somehow by itself, it was determined so early and imperceptibly, as it happens only for those for whom something is ‘predicted’,” he once wrote about himself. I. S. Shmelev said that Russia itself is revealed through Bunin’s prose. The revolution forced Bunin to leave his homeland, but the memory of it became the support of all his further work: he began to recreate forever lost Russia, its vanished beauty in his works. In essence, the cycle of stories “Dark Alleys” - Bunin’s main book of the emigrant period - is “the restoration of the instantaneous time of love in the eternal time of Russia, its nature, its past frozen in its splendor” (I. N. Sukhikh). This edition includes the cycle “Dark Alleys”, diary entries from 1918–1919 “Cursed Days”, literary memoirs, the book “The Liberation of Tolstoy”, as well as poems from different years.