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Russian forces have occupied Noteborg fortress

22 October 1702

Shlisselburg fortress (Oreshek – The Nut) was founded by a Novgorod prince Yuri Danilovitch, a grandson of Alexander Nevsky in 1323 on Orekhovy island at the Neva river head as an outpost at the border with Sweden.

Birth of the outstanding Russian writer, the first Russian Nobel Prize laureate in literature, Ivan Bunin

22 October 1870

Russian writer Ivan Bunin, an outstanding Russian writer, recognized in emigration as "the last classic of Russian literature", the first Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (1933), was born in Voronezh on October 10 (22), 1870 in the family of a representative of an ancient noble family, landowner Alexei Nikolaevich Bunin (1827-1906) and Lyudmila Alexandrovna Chubarova (about 1835-1910).