"Outside the Walls of Zion Destroyed and Defiled": I. A. Bunin in 1917–1921

This article reconstructs the biographical canvas of Ivan Bunin’s life in 1917–1921. Both in the author’s works and in his life, there are clearly visible clashes and sharp changes of direction between the polarities of existence and life: complete happiness and despair, the collapse of his familiar world and hope for its rebirth through word. Bunin’s works in these years contain obvious allusions to Old Testament prophecies and psalms and to motifs from the Gospels