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Bunin's Yefremov

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6 points6 km1.5 hours

The town of Yefremov is closely tied to Ivan Bunin, the first Russian Nobel laureate in literature. You'll see old houses that remember the writer and wander through the town grove where Bunin read his poems more than a hundred years ago.

Route author

Susanin Team

Things to do

  • 📜 Learn the city's history
  • 🏛️🕰️ Compare the eras

Route points (6)

  1. Monument to I. A. Bunin at Yefremov Railway Station — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”

    Monument to I. A. Bunin at Yefremov Railway Station

    🗿 Monument

  2. I. A. Bunin House Museum in Yefremov — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”

    I. A. Bunin House Museum in Yefremov

    🏛️ Museum · 📜 Historic site

  3. Red Square — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”

    Red Square

    ⛲ Square · 🌿 Public garden or park

  4. Town Garden on Red Square — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”

    Town Garden on Red Square

    🌿 Public garden or park · 🕵️ Urban legend

  5. Bunin Family Graves in the Town Grove — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”

    Bunin Family Graves in the Town Grove

    📜 Historic site · 🗿 Monument

  6. I. A. Bunin Town Park — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”

    I. A. Bunin Town Park

    🌿 Public garden or park

I. A. Bunin House Museum in Yefremov in Yefremov

Point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”

I. A. Bunin House Museum in Yefremov — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”
I. A. Bunin House Museum in Yefremov — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”
I. A. Bunin House Museum in Yefremov — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”
I. A. Bunin House Museum in Yefremov — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”
I. A. Bunin House Museum in Yefremov — point on route “Bunin's Yefremov”

Point 2

I. A. Bunin House Museum in Yefremov

🏛️ Museum • 📜 Historic site

Historical Background

In 1985 a literary department of the Yefremov Museum of Local History opened in house No. 47 on Turgeneva Street, with a permanent exhibition about Yefremov motifs in the writer's work. In January 2001 the literary department became the I. A. Bunin House Museum. It is the only surviving memorial house museum where the great Russian writer repeatedly lived and worked in the early 20th century. His relatives lived here, and here he gathered material for his works. In mid-August 1906, after leasing his land in Ognevka to the peasants, E. A. Bunin moved permanently to Yefremov and bought his own house: a small brick mansion with a courtyard, built for the landowner Shorin in 1880. In the story “The Cup of Life” Ivan Alekseyevich wrote: “He bought the house from a landowner — an old one, with wooden columns and a garden. It was a remarkable house he had come by.” Many years later, in emigration, Ivan Bunin recalled how the story came about: “The main thing that made me write all this was the impression of a street in Yefremov.” Monument to I. A. Bunin in the museum courtyard: in October 2007 a bust designed by the Yelets sculptor N. A. Kravchenko was installed in the courtyard of the House Museum.

Turgeneva Street

Every street in Yefremov has its own curious history, but Turgeneva Street is especially interesting: in the last century the writer's relatives often strolled along it, and so did Ivan Alekseyevich himself. In 1885 Yefremov's teachers proposed to the town duma that Nechaevsky Lane be renamed Turgeneva Street, in memory of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev's stay in the Yefremov area.