The second pot of coffee

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Ivan Bunin in 1901 in a photo of Maxim Dmitriev

The second pot of coffee ( Russian Второй кофейник , Wtoroi kofeinik ) is a short story by the Russian Nobel Prize winner for literature Ivan Bunin , which was completed on April 30, 1944 and was published in 1945 in No. 21 of the New York Russian émigré magazine Novosselje . The cheerful story, in which the author has woven images of a number of representatives from Moscow bohemianism, apparently takes place after 1918, because the painter Yarzew - see below - has already died.

Katja, a young blonde woman, is a nude model for the painter. In the studio in the Snamenka, the nice, affectionate woman also acts as the painter's housekeeper and lover. After an hour of work there is a coffee break. He orders her to warm up the second pot of coffee. Relieved, she gets to work, trills a little song and reveals that the painter Jarzew taught her this. She lived with him for a year - stood as a model and kept the house in order. It was also Yarzew who deflowered her.

Katja goes on to tell her painter how she had previously been orphaned and brought to Moscow by an uncle. The latter and a second uncle had initially included her in the household and wanted to put her in a brothel for profit. Luckily Chaliapin and Korowin would have prevented that when they came by after a night from the Strelna after a night. She then came to her current profession, model modeling, through the painter Korowin. At Dr. She was Goloushev, with a dilettante, Kuwschinnikowa and with Malyavin .

The coffee is ready. The session continues.

German-language editions

Used edition
  • The second pot of coffee. German by Erich Ahrndt . P. 498–501 in: Karlheinz Kasper (Ed.): Iwan Bunin: Dunkle Alleen. Stories 1920–1953 . 580 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1985

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edition used, p. 501
  2. ↑ Russian Новоселье , German: new apartment
  3. ↑ Russian Grigori Fjodorowitsch Jarzew (1858–1918)
  4. ↑ Russian Snamenka . Moscow Street near the Arbat
  5. ↑ Russian Стрельна . Strelna - restaurant in Moscow
  6. ↑ Pseudonym: Russian Сергей Глаголь Sergei Glagol (1855–1920)
  7. ↑ Russian Sofja Petrovna Kuwschinnikowa (1847–1907). Chekhov already trained her in the fluttering spirit .