Ivan Bunin's book of short stories «Dark Avenues» has accumulated many discoveries of Bunin as an artist. The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of impressionistic psychology as a branch of impressionistic poetics in the artistic mentality of Bunin as exemplified by his short story "Heinrich". Impressionism is regarded as a type of artistic mentality that is associated with the specifics of philosophical understanding of life at the turn of the 20th century. It follows from the analysis of the story that Bunin has mastered the poetics of impressionistic psychology, which reflects the writer's focus on the philosophy of love, the expression of hidden, implicit, shadow states of the character's soul, and the unique role of a certain moment in his life. The author achieves a synthesis of real-life specifics accentuated by symbolic details of emotional and philosophical nature, thus creating a sophisticated semantic complex that brings the short story to the level of understanding of existential problems.
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