I. A. Bunin – author of the column “Literature and press” in the newspaper “Orlovskiy vestnik” (1890)

Section: History of Journalism

The article is devoted to one of the most urgent problems related to the study of Ivan Bunin’s early critical and journalistic creativity. The writer’s participation in the management of the column “Literature and Press” in the Orlovskiy Vestnik newspaper remains one of the blind spots in the biography of the writer: in particular, neither the timing of this participation nor the specific journalistic works that came from the pen of the young Bunin and published in “Literature and Press” are unknown. The time frame of the article is deliberately limited to 1890, since there is no information about Bunin’s participation in the column in other years. Due to the fact that the materials of the column were published without a signature, in order to identify Bunin texts, a special attribution procedure is required according to chronological, lexical-stylistic, ideological-thematic, historical-biographical criteria. Among the texts published in “Literature and Press”, reviews and notes are more amenable to attribution, to a lesser extent – informational messages and announcements written in a neutral or formal style. About attribution, the texts will be included in one of the volumes of Bunin’s first scientific “Complete collection”, in the “Dubia” section.

DOI: 10.55959/ msu.vestnik.journ.6.2025.195215

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To cite this article: Bakuntsev A. V. (2025) I. A. Bunin – avtor rubriki «Literatura i pechat’» v gazete «Orlovskiy vestnik» (1890) [I. A. Bunin – author of the column “Literature and press” in the newspaper “Orlovskiy vestnik” (1890)]. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 10. Zhurnalistika 6: 195–215. DOI: 10.55959/ msu.vestnik.journ.6.2025.195215