abstract:Meliton is a novella by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin. Dated as "1900-1930" in The Complete Bunin (Petropolis, Berlin, 1935 and Moscow, 1965), it was first published in the 1901 #7 (July) issue of Saint Petersburg magazine Zhurnal dlya vsekh (Journal For Everyone), originally under the title Skete (Скит).