This week, let’s work on a story by Ivan Bunin, a writer whose work I don’t know very well, who is often compared to Chekhov. For context: Bunin was born in 1870 (so, ten years after Chekhov was born), left Russia in 1920 (around the time Isaac Babel was writing the stories in Red Cavalry), and lived in exile in Paris until he died in 1953 (the year Elvis made his first recordings with Sam Phillips in Memphis).