title: Rachmaninov
abstract: This chapter introduces Sergei Rachmaninov, whom Ivan Bunin met in Yalta. Bunin and Rachmaninov spent entire nights talking about the splendid, eternal, and high art until his final departure to America. Both men sat next to each other, drank Abrau-Durso champagne, and then went out onto the terrace, continuing to talk about the decline in poetry and prose in Russian literature. Despite the declaration of being friends forever, their life paths remained different and apart, so their coincidental
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