For almost his entire life, the renowned Russian writer Ivan Alekseevich Bunin kept diaries. He considered 'the diary one of the most beautiful literary forms. I believe that in the near future this form will supplant all others.' His notes on revolutionary events, first published in 1926 under the title 'Cursed Days,' gained particular renown. The revolution as a chaotic maelstrom of faces, situations, cries, propaganda, complaints, rumors, omissions, confessions, and revelations. Bunin's accusatory and damning, caustic and bitter text is one of the most frank and unflattering descriptions of the fateful events in Russian history.