(right) Portrait of Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), Soviet poet and novelist, the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Photo on left with Bunin is (left) Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (1871-1919), Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist and symbolist schools in literature. 1901 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies