On October 22, an official ceremony took place of cancellation of an artistic stamp dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of I.A. Bunin, Russian writer and poet

The event was attended by Alla Manilova, State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation; Oleg Dukhovnitsky, the Head of the Federal Communications Agency; Mikhail Seslavinsky, the Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media; and Dmitry Bak, the Director of the Vladimir Dal State Museum of the History of Russian Literature.

Ivan A. Bunin (1870−1953) was 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. Ivan Bunin was born in Voronezh in the family of an impoverished nobleman. Bunin wrote his first poems at the age of 17. In 1891, the first book of his poems was published. Having moved a short time later to Moscow, Bunin made literary acquaintances with Tolstoy, Chekhov and Gorky, who left a significant imprint on his life and literary activity.

The basic motives of his writings are the world around, love and death. Ivan Bunin described in detail and with passion his own feelings and life moments, he often became engrossed in the past and brought to mind pleasant and adverse circumstances, trying to sort himself out and at the same time, to convey profound and truly timeless ideas to his reader. Among the writings by Ivan Bunin, one can distinguish poem books Under the Open Skies (1898), and Falling Leaves (1901); his short novels Antonov Apples (1900), Pines (1901), Mitya's Love (1924), Sunstroke (1925); and the most important novel in his life — The Life of Arseniev (1927−1929, 1933). This novel brought Bunin the Nobel Prize in 1933 “for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions”.

As was stated by the Head of Rossvyaz, the Federal Communications Agency in cooperation with JSC Marka annually produces a variety of philatelic products dedicated to political and public figures. This anniversary year, an artistic stamp was put into postal circulation in the quantity of 126 thousand pieces that features the writer’s portrait against a Russian estate. “I am sure that the artistic postal stamp will become a unique piece, a philatelic rarity among collectors around the world and will forever preserve the memory of today’s event,” he added.

« back