Ivan Alekséyevich Bunin (Russian: Иван Алексеевич Бунин) (Voronezh, October 22, 1870 - Paris, November 8, 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933.

Born in Central Russia, in the bosom of a noble family, he lived until he was seven years old on the estate that his parents owned in Yeléts. He was educated in the paternal home under the discipline of a tutor, who taught him to read and write using a Russian translation of Don Quixote, with the stories and legends of Nikolai Gogol and the Robinson Crusoe.