12 October 1917. Ivan Bunin

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Ivan Bunin

Vasilievskoe estate, Glotovo village, Orlovskaya guberniya, Russian Republic

I avoid going outside. It hurts, something's not right with my throat. It's almost a summer day. I'm still reading Fet.

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