The Tula region is not only a gingerbread, weapons and harmony region, but also a literary one. Great Russian writers and philosophers lived here at different times: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky, Vikenty Vikentievich Veresaev, Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky.
For a long time, in the very south of Tula province, in the county town of Yefremov, lived the outstanding writer Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, the first Russian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here, after the sale of the Bunin Ognevka estate in 1905, the writer's brother Evgeny lived with his wife, children and mother. The house on Turgenev Street has been preserved to this day. Now it has a museum dedicated to the family of Ivan Alekseevich and his work. The Bunins lived very poorly, but amicably. All the writer's relatives gathered in Tula province for every holiday.
Ivan Alekseevich first visited Efremov as a 17-year-old boy when he decided to get from Yelets to Yasnaya Polyana at all costs. Already at such an early age, Bunin had a burning desire to write. Ivan Alekseevich idolized Tolstoy and wanted to get to know him and receive his blessing. However, the young aspiring writer drove his horse so hard that he had to stop halfway to Efremov, where the tired young man fell asleep in the city garden. The trip to Tolstoy had to be postponed.
Ivan Alekseevich Bunin devoted his whole life to honing his writing skills. And neither the Pushkin nor the Nobel Prizes speak as eloquently about his literary genius as the works he left behind. His incredible love for ancient, pre-revolutionary Russia is fully reflected in the pages of his books. Through the pen of Ivan Alekseevich, today we can recreate in our imagination even the surroundings of the city of Efremov at the beginning of the 20th century, to see a fabulous Beautiful place. Bunin himself was Russia.
Now in the city of Yefremov, the memory of the great Russian writer is especially honored. The Ivan Alekseevich Bunin House Museum is located on Turgenev Street, where people who are incredibly immersed in the master's life work. In the reviews, guests regularly write that here you can get the warmest impressions from the tour. At the railway station, all visitors are greeted by a sculpture of a young writer. The monument to Ivan Alekseevich can also be seen in the Central Park named after Bunin, located between Druzhby Street and Tula Highway in Yefremov.
