Star Runes by Ivan Bunin
There is one peculiarity in Bunin's work: perhaps none of the Russian authors, except him, do not meet so often descriptions of stars and constellations, unless Tyutchev, perhaps, is comparable to him in his partiality for the firmament, "shining with the glory of the star." Bunin himself speaks about a special love for the stars: I will never tire of singing your praises, stars! You are always mysterious and young. Since childhood, I timidly comprehend Dark abysses with shining runes. ("I will never tire of singing your praises, stars...") In the poem" Night " he writes: I'm looking for a combination in this world Beautiful and eternal. Far away I see the night: the sands of silence And the starlight above the twilight of the earth. Like writing, they twinkle in the firmament of blue Pleiades, Vega, Mars and Orion. I love their flow over the desert And the secret meaning of their royal names! Bunin's works include not only the well-known Venus, Mars, Polaris, dipper of Ursa Major and the Milky Way, but also Sirius (my favorite star!), Arcturus, Vega, Jupiter, the constellations Capella, Osiris, Orion, Scorpio, Canis, Pleiades, Canopus, Raven, and the Southern Cross... Bunin spent his childhood in a remote estate in the Voronezh forest-steppe, where the sky is wide open, and a leisurely lifestyle creates conditions for contemplation. He developed an interest in the stars from an early age. The writer speaks about its origins in the "Life of Arsenyev", and, apparently, his mother was the person who drew attention to the starry sky: "If you go out , there is no fire in the hall, only a clear moon in height outside the windows, the hall is empty, stately, full as if with the thinnest smoke, and she (el. - A.A.), dense, in its coniferous, snow-mourning vestments, page 29 it rises regally behind the glass, its point goes into the pure transparent and bottomless dome-shaped blue, where the widely spread constellation of Orion is white and silvered, and below, in the brigh ... Read more
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