Dimcho Debelyanov house

The house of Bulgarian poet Dimcho Debelyanov (Димчо Дебелянов) (1887 - 1916) is now a museum in Koprivshtitsa. After early wealth, the family left this house on the death of Debelyanov's father and moved throughout Bulgaria.This loss of place had an influence on Debelyanov's work (he wrote of Plovdiv - now a centre for European haulage - with regret, calling it "the sorrowful city").

The house is beautiful with a lovely cobbled yard but as the family left the house, the interior is mostly museum-like but visitors comment on the warm atmosphere that remains.

Debelyanov's brief career through a variety of jobs ended in death in World War 1 fighting intriguingly with an Irish division. His fame as a poet was posthumous when his work was collected by friends after his death and published in a two volume anthology with his letters and notes. Today Debelyanov Point in Robert Island, South Shetland Islands is named after him.

More on the Dimcho Debelyanov house here http://visit.guide-bulgaria.com/a/183/dimcho_debelyanov_house-museum.htm and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimcho_Debelyanov.

Remember, remember the quiet space

quiet home in white blossom cherries?

Ukraine garden

Russian poet and writer Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин) was inspired by gardens, travel and the Alupka palace (designed for Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov by one of the architect team for Walter Scott's Abbotsford Edward Blore).The first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was born in 1870 and died France in 1953 (having emigrated there shortly after the Revolution).

His visit to Alupka in the Crimea and the Vorontsov Palace in 1900 resulted in the poem Long alley leading down to the shore. This is a poem of sensual intent reminiscent of Tennyson's conflation of gardens, paths and sexual availability. But with a bitter sweet edge and a big sky. Pushkin meets Russian Symbolism.

More information here http://worontsovpalace.com.ua/ and the poem in Russian can be found here http://bunin.niv.ru/bunin/stihi/231.htm.

Hard to find a book of his poetry translated...let us know if you find one...