he was born in 1873, was born. that ivan bunin studied there, and the future philosopher priest, sergei geography teacher at this gymnasium was none other than the philosopher vasily vasilyevich rozanov, all this was at about the same time, just imagine, small, beautiful, charming yelets, a boys' gymnasium, which, by the way, has survived to this day until now, and there is a school there, once upon a time, almost a century and a half ago, in this school... they met, well, and missed each other a little, because bunin was expelled from this gymnasium or left this gymnasium, a little earlier than preshvin came to it, in this wonderful building, they coincided with roznov, in fact, roznov played a huge role in the fate of preshvin, because at first he highly appreciated this stubborn dreamer, this dreamer, who dreamed of traveling, who once ran away from school together with... from the gymnasium with a wolf's ticket, and actually ruined his fate, or maybe on the contrary, gave him a fate, a truly amazing fate, because expelled from the yelets gymnasium, the boy went to study in siberia,