№ 2599. 150 years since the birth of I.A. Bunin (1870-1953), writer, poet

Ivan A. Bunin (1870−1953) is a Russian writer and poet, the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature. He was an Honorary Academician in the belle-lettres grade of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

The postal stamp provides a Bunin’s portrait against a Russian manor house; the margins of the stamp sheet show the writer’s quotations and facsimile.