The famous Russian writer and Nobel Prize winner Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870–1953) can be imagined as a destroyer of stereotypes about the classics of literature. Bunin was a witty and subtle connoisseur of the beautiful, and loved, for example, to repeat: 'Lord, send me chastity, only not now…' He said that one needs to grow old in order to understand: there is nothing in the world more dear than love — not money, not even glory. However, both excellently 'help the loves'! Love is the main theme of 'Dark Avenues', which Bunin considered his best work. In the brilliant stories — all the facets, half-tones and shades of the great feeling, in which sometimes not even a lifetime is enough to make sense of…