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The I.A. Bunin House-Museum

The Bunin Museum in Yefremov invites the guests of Tula Region to get acquainted with the work and life of Ivan Bunin. The author and his family had a close connection with the town. The Yefremov Museum of Bunin is located in the house of his brother at Turgeneva St., 47.

Here they like to tell the story of how seventeen-year-old Ivan Bunim, feeling an irresistible craving for literature, took off on a horse and rushed to Yasnaya Polyana to get acquainted with Leo Tolstoy. However, having reached Yefremov at a gallop, he fell asleep in the city garden, and in the morning, having cooled off, he went home.

During the First Russian Revolution, Ivan Bunin was forced to leave with his family for Yefremov, since the peasants of the Bunin estate in Ognyovka threatened to expel them by force. His brother Evgeny bought a one-storey mansion where his mother, brothers, sister, and the author himself lived. This small mansion is now the house-museum of Bunin in Yefremov. Here he would write Chalice of Life, New Year, and The Village. Memories of Yefremov would feature in his best works, Antonov Apples and The Life of Arseniev.

Of course, the house was confiscated in favor of the young and developing Soviet republic in 1921. Until 1985, it housed a kindergarten, the editorial office of a local newspaper, and residential apartments. Surprisingly, in 1974 the house owned by the noble family and the monarchist author was declared a cultural heritage site. For a whole decade, Bunin’s house in Yefremov had been designed to become a museum. In 1985, the restored building was added to the local history museum with an exposition dedicated to the family, work and life of the outstanding Russian author.

Despite the fact that the museum is small, visitors linger here for over an hour, forgetting about the time. This is due to the tour that can captivate both preschoolers and adults. The paintings of the writer’s brother, the rooms of his relatives, the simple but elegant study room of Ivan Bunin, recreated from his things brought from Paris, make it possible to feel the family atmosphere in which the first Russian laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature loved to dwell.

Driving along the M4 federal highway, tourists call in to rest in Yefremov. A wise decision in this case would be to visit the museum. To specify the opening hours, please call +7 (48741) 6-64-44. After the exposition, you may want to visit the protected areas of Krasivaya Mecha like Ishutino and Krasnogorie.

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Николай 02 October 2021
Бывала здесь несколько раз. Интересный музей рассказывает о жизни Бунина, отличная экскурсия. Рекомендую к посещению, даже с детьми.