Anton V. Bakuntsev

Candidate of Philological Sciences (1999), Associate Professor, Senior Research Associate at the Department of Russian Literature of the Late 19th – Early 20th Centuries.

Born on July 7, 1973, in Tallinn. Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism (1995) and completed full-time postgraduate studies (1998) at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU). Defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation on the topic “Copyright in Russian Journalism and Literature of the 18th–19th Centuries” (1999, supervised by Ph.D., Associate Professor M.I. Alekseev). Taught at the Faculty of Journalism, MSU, from 1997 to 2022. Has been with IMLI since July 2020. Author of over 170 scholarly and popular science works.

Member of the editorial boards: scientific publication series “Academic Bunin” (IMLI RAS); scientific publication series “Emigrantica” (IMLI RAS); scholarly journal History of Domestic Media (Faculty of Journalism, MSU).

Head of the research project “Preparation of the Book I.A. Bunin. On Literature and Revolution. Articles, Notes, Reviews, Speeches, Responses to Questionnaires. 1911–1953” (2019–2021, RFBR grant).

Participant in research projects: “Academic Bunin. Source Studies, Textology, Methodology” (2016–2021, RSF grant); “Early Works of I.A. Bunin: Poetry, Prose, Criticism, Journalism, Translations (1883–1902)” (2022–2024, RSF grant).

Research Interests: Life and works of I.A. Bunin, history of Russian literature and journalism of the late 19th – first half of the 20th century, issues of textology, history of copyright.

Main Publications

Monographs and Chapters in Collective Works:

Copyright on Literary Works in the Russian Empire: Laws, Decrees, International Treaties (1827–1917). Moscow: VK Publishing, 2005. 91 p.

I.A. Bunin in the Baltics: The 1938 Literary Tour. Moscow: House of Russian Diaspora named after A. Solzhenitsyn, 2012. 156 p.; ill.

The Baltic Tour of Ivan Bunin: An Attempt at Documentary Reconstruction. Moscow: Faculty of Journalism, MSU, 2012. 166 p.; ill.

Mass Media // Great Russian Encyclopedia. Moscow: BRE, 2004. Vol. Russia. Pp. 458–460. (Co-authored with M.A. Fedotov.)

I. Severyanin. Solovei: Poezy. Berlin: AO “Nakanune,” 1923; I. Severyanin. Royal Leandra (Lugne): A Novel in Stanzas. Author’s edition. Bucharest, 1935 // Tamizdat: 100 Selected Books. Moscow: Russian Path, 2012. Pp. 379–384; 385–389.

Severyanin I. Solovei: Poezy. Berlin; Moscow: AO “Nakanune,” 1923; Severyanin I. Royal Leandra (Lugne): A Novel in Stanzas. [Author’s edition]. Bucharest: n.d., 1935 // Tamizdat: 100 Selected Books / Compiled and with an introductory article by M.V. Seslavinskii. 2nd ed., revised. Moscow: OLMA Media Group, 2014. Pp. 457–462; 463–465.

Correspondence of I.A. Bunin with A. Belich and V.D. Bryanskii, 1928–1941 // Literary Heritage. Vol. 110: I.A. Bunin. New Materials and Studies: In 4 Books / Ed.-in-Chief and compiled by O.A. Korostelev, S.N. Morozov. Moscow: IMLI RAS, 2022. Book 2. Pp. 811–881.

Articles in Scholarly Journals and Collections:

The Emergence of Copyright Relations in Book Publishing and Periodical Press in 18th-Century Russia // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 1999. No. 2. Pp. 16–28.

Main Issues of Copyright in Russian Civil Law in the Second Half of the 19th Century // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2000. No. 1. Pp. 36–47.

At the Origins of Publishing Law. Printer’s Marks and Privileges as Means of Protecting Publishing Interests in Russia in the 18th – Early 19th Centuries // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2008. No. 1. Pp. 53–66.

“Why Do I Hardly Publish with You at All?…” On the History of I.A. Bunin’s Collaboration with the Riga Newspaper Segodnia (1921–1933) // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2009. No. 3. Pp. 145–155.

“Such Facts Are Not Forgotten and Do Not Pass Without Trace…” I.A. Bunin and the Riga Newspaper Segodnia in 1933–1938 // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2009. No. 5. Pp. 212–224.

The Riga Newspaper Segodnia During I.A. Bunin’s “Nobel Days” (November 1933 – January 1934): Materials from the Editorial Archive // Media@lmash. 2010. No. 5. Pp. 68–75; No. 6. Pp. 64–71.

I.A. Bunin’s Lecture “The Great Delusion” and Its Role in the Writer’s Personal and Creative Destiny // Yearbook of the House of Russian Diaspora named after Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 2011 / Ed.-in-Chief N.F. Gritsenko. Moscow: House of Russian Diaspora named after A. Solzhenitsyn, 2011. Pp. 17–44.

“I Would Like to Hear from You…”: Letters of Iu.D. Shumakov to L.F. Zurov (1965–1966) // Yearbook of the House of Russian Diaspora named after Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 2012 / Ed.-in-Chief N.F. Gritsenko. Moscow: House of Russian Diaspora named after A. Solzhenitsyn, 2012. Pp. 425–456.

Cursed Days: Features of I.A. Bunin’s Work with Factual Material // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2013. No. 4. Pp. 22–36.

I.A. Bunin’s Speech “The Mission of Russian Emigration” in the Public Consciousness of the Era (Based on Émigré and Soviet Periodicals of the 1920s) // Yearbook of the House of Russian Diaspora named after A. Solzhenitsyn, 2013 / Ed.-in-Chief N.F. Gritsenko. Moscow: House of Russian Diaspora named after A. Solzhenitsyn, 2014. Pp. 268–337.

I.A. Bunin on the Pages of Odessa Press During the Civil War // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2014. No. 5. Pp. 55–71.

I.A. Bunin and Censorship // Censorship in Russia: History and Modernity: Collection of Scholarly Works. St. Petersburg: Russian National Library, 2015. Issue 7. Pp. 263–271.

“In the Newspapers – Blok, Blok, Blok…”: I.A. Bunin’s Response to the Death of A.A. Blok // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2015. No. 3. Pp. 100–114.

Ivan Bunin and Vladimir Burtsev in 1917–1934 // Iwan Bunin. Człowiek, pisarz, tłumacz w świetle współczesnej buninologii / Иван Бунин. Человек, писатель, переводчик в освещении современного буниноведения / Ed. by B. Kozak, T. Marczenko, I.A. NDiaye. Olsztyn: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 2015. Pp. 159–183.

“Literary Theft” in Émigré Press of the 1920s. The Newspaper Poslednie Izvestiia (Reval/Tallinn) // Mediascop. 2016. Issue 3. URL: http://www.mediascope.ru/node/2139.

“We Know You Are Not Very Easy to Motivate…”: Letters of P.N. Miliukov to I.A. Bunin, 1921–1937 // Yearbook of the House of Russian Diaspora named after Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 2016 / Ed.-in-Chief N.F. Gritsenko. Moscow: House of Russian Diaspora named after A. Solzhenitsyn, 2016. Pp. 376–405.

I.A. Bunin: “This Is Some Special, ‘Uterine’ Purely Russian Stupidity…” // History of Domestic Media. 2016. Moscow: Faculty of Journalism, MSU, 2016. Issue 2. Pp. 19–35.

“We Cannot Avoid Leaving…”: I.A. Bunin on the Eve of Emigration from Russia (1919–1920) // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2017. No. 3. Pp. 151–167.

Journalist A. Vetlugin and His “Confused Biography” // History of Domestic Media. 2017. Moscow: Faculty of Journalism, MSU, 2017. Issue 1. Pp. 106–126.

Ivan Bunin – Unfulfilled Editor of the Newspaper Yuzhnoye Obozrenie // Literary Fact. 2017. No. 4. Pp. 124–142. DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2017-4-124-142.

Student Years of A. Vetlugin (1914–1918) // Literary Fact. 2017. No. 5. Pp. 108–124. DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2017-5-108-124.

The Publishing Commission of the Russian Cultural Committee in Belgrade (1928–1937): A Brief Overview of Activities // Publishing in the Russian Diaspora (19th–20th Centuries): Collection of Scholarly Works. Moscow: House of Russian Diaspora named after A. Solzhenitsyn, 2017. Pp. 79–90.

I.A. Bunin and the Russian Cultural Committee in Belgrade (1928–1937) // Literary Fact. 2017. No. 6. Pp. 70–91. DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2017-6-70-91.

Judaic Reminiscences in I.A. Bunin’s Journalism // “Us” vs “Them” in the Culture of Emigration: Collection of Articles / Ed. by A.A. Danilevskii, S.N. Docsenko. Moscow: Flinta; Nauka, 2018. Pp. 134–143.

I.A. Bunin and E.V. Spektorskii: Correspondence (1928–1933) // Studia Litterarum. 2018. Vol. 3, No. 4. Pp. 298–315. DOI: 10.22455/2500-4247-2018-3-4-298-315. (Co-authored with S.N. Morozov.)

Letters of I.A. Bunin in the Funds of the State Archive of the Russian Federation // Textological Almanac: Issues of Textology and Source Studies. Moscow: IMLI RAS, 2018. Book 3: Letters and Diaries in the Russian Literary Heritage of the 20th Century. Pp. 100–108.

I.A. Bunin in the Newspaper Obshchee Delo (1920–1922) // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2019. No. 4. Pp. 94–113. DOI: 10.30547/vestnik.journ.4.2019.94113.

“The Most Vicious Black Hundreds Member and Fool, He Has Completely Decomposed…”: I.F. Nazhivin About I.A. Bunin (1930s) // The Works of I.A. Bunin in the Historical-Literary Context (Biography, Source Studies, Textology): Collection of Articles / Ed.-in-Chief and compiled by O.A. Korostelev, S.N. Morozov. Moscow: Litfakt, 2019. Pp. 315–336. (Academic Bunin; Issue 1).

The Anti-Bunin Pamphlet by I.F. Nazhivin // Literary Fact. 2020. No. 2 (16). Pp. 93–118. DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2020-16-93-118.

The Collection of Criticism and Journalism by I.A. Bunin 1911–1953 as a Scholarly Project. Part 1. General Characteristics and Composition // Bulletin of Voronezh State University. Series: Philology. Journalism. 2021. No. 3. Pp. 32–38. (Co-authored with S.N. Morozov.)

The Collection of Criticism and Journalism by I.A. Bunin 1911–1953 as a Scholarly Project. Part 2. Structure and Textology // Bulletin of Voronezh State University. Series: Philology. Journalism. 2021. No. 4. Pp. 8–12. (Co-authored with S.N. Morozov.)

“The Life of Arseniev, of Course, Is Primarily Poetry”: G.V. Adamovich on I.A. Bunin’s Novel (1929–1952) // Literary Fact. 2021. No. 3 (21). Pp. 304–325. DOI: 10.22455/2541-8297-2021-21-304-325.

“Here Is a Work by a True Master”: Émigré Criticism on I.A. Bunin’s Novel The Life of Arseniev (1928–1952) // I.A. Bunin and His Time: Contexts of Fate – History of Creativity / Ed.-in-Chief and compiled by T.M. Dvinyatina, S.N. Morozov, ed. by A.V. Bakuntsev, E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow: IMLI RAS, 2021. Pp. 191–266. (Academic Bunin; 3). DOI: 10.22455/AB-978-5-9208-0675-8-191-266. ISBN 978-5-9208-0675-8.

“Letter to Bossard” (1921) by I.A. Bunin: An Unknown Variant // The Civil War in the Memory of the Russian Diaspora: To the 100th Anniversary of the Far Eastern Exodus and the End of Armed Conflict 1917–1922: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference. Moscow, October 31 – November 1, 2022 / Compiled by A.S. Kruchinin, T.V. Marczenko, M.Iu. Sorokina. Moscow: Vifsaida, 2023. Pp. 521–534.

Early Critical-Journalistic and Journalistic Works of I.A. Bunin (1888–1900) // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2023. No. 2. Pp. 145–167. DOI: 10.30547/vestnik.journ.2.2023.145167.

Reminiscences from the Works of Saadi in the Journalism and Epistolary of I.A. Bunin: A Source Studies Aspect of the Problem // Studia Litterarum. 2023. Vol. 8, No. 3. Pp. 168–193. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-3-168-193.

I.A. Bunin – Correspondent of the Newspaper Kievlianin (1892–1894) // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 10. Journalism. 2023. No. 6. Pp. 192–210. DOI: 10.30547/vestnik.journ.6.2023.192210. (Co-authored with S.N. Morozov.)