Introduction to the Catalogue of the Bunin, Bunina, Zurov and Lopatina Collections

Ivan Bunin (1870-1953), a poet and short-story writer, who lived in France from 1920, was the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933). His papers passed down a line of inheritance to Dr Militsa Greene of Edinburgh University and were given by her to the Leeds Russian Archive between 1985 and 1991.

A Catalogue of the Bunin archive, and of the archives of his wife Vera, their friend and heir Leonid Zurov, and another family friend, Ekaterina Lopatina, has now been published:

Anthony J. Heywood, Catalogue of the I A Bunin, V N Bunina, L F Zurov and E M Lopatina Collections, edited by Richard D Davies, with the assistance of Daniel Riniker (Leeds: Leeds University Press, 2000), xxxiv + 393 pp. ISBN 0 85316 215 8.

The introduction to the Catalogue includes:

• A biography of Bunin
• A biography of Bunina
• A biography of Zurov
• A biography of Lopatina
• Provenance and history of the collections
• Access to the collections

Copies of the Catalogue are available at a cost of £10 (plus £4 UK P&P, £9 non-UK P&P). Please contact Richard Davies for details of how to order a copy.