A variety of life circumstances and dramatic plots in the works of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin are explained primarily by the fact that his own life was very “action-packed” and difficult. It seems that when, in a review of Kipling's story The Brave Mariners, he wrote about people who had gone through an "iron school of life, full of need, danger, grief and resentment," he recalled what he himself had experienced.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin was born on August 26, 1870 in the Penza province in the city of Narovchat. The father of the future writer Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin, a raznochinets (an intellectual who did not belong to the nobility), held the modest position of secretary of the justice of the peace. Mother, Lyubov Alexandrovna came from the nobility, but impoverished.
When the boy was not even a year old, his father died of cholera, leaving the family without a livelihood. The widow and her son were forced to settle in the Moscow Widow's House. Lyubov Alexandrovna really wanted her Sashenka to become an officer, and when he was 6 years old, his mother assigned him to the Razumovsky boarding school. He prepared the boys for admission to a secondary military educational institution.
Sasha stayed in this boarding house for about 4 years. In 1880, he began to study at the 2nd Moscow Military Gymnasium, which was later reorganized into a cadet corps. I must say that stick discipline reigned within the walls of the military gymnasium. The situation was aggravated by searches, espionage, supervision, mockery of the older pupils over the younger ones. All this environment coarsened and corrupted the soul. But Sasha Kuprin, being in this nightmare, managed to maintain spiritual health, which later became a charming feature of his work.
In 1888, Alexander completed his studies in the corps and entered the 3rd Military Alexander School, which trained infantry officers. In August 1890, he graduated from it and went to serve in the 46th Dnieper Infantry Regiment. After that, the service began in the deaf and godforsaken corners of the Podolsk province.
In the fall of 1894, Kuprin retired and moved to Kyiv. By this time, he had already written 4 published works: "The Last Debut", "In the Dark", "Moonlight Night", "Inquiry". In the same 1894, the young writer began to collaborate in the newspapers Kievskoye Slovo, Life and Art, and in early 1895 he became an employee of the Kievlyanin newspaper.
He wrote a number of essays and combined them into the book Kyiv Types. This work was published in 1896. The year 1897 became even more significant for the young writer, as the first collection of his stories, Miniatures, was published.
In 1896, Alexander Kuprin went on a trip to the factories and mines of the Donets Basin. Burning with the desire to thoroughly study real life, he gets a job at one of the factories as the head of accounting for the forge and carpentry workshop. In this new capacity for him, the future famous writer worked for several months. During this time, material was collected not only for a number of essays, but also for the story "Moloch".
In the second half of the 90s, Kuprin's life begins to resemble a kaleidoscope. He organizes an athletic society in Kyiv in 1896 and begins to actively engage in sports. In 1897, he got a job as a manager in an estate located in the Rivne district. Then he takes a great interest in prosthetics and works for some time as a dentist. In 1899, he joined a traveling theater group for several months.
In the same 1899, Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin arrived in Yalta. In this city, a significant event in his life took place - a meeting with Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. After that, Kuprin visited Yalta in 1900 and 1901. Chekhov introduced him to many writers and publishers. Among them was V. S. Mirolyubov, the publisher of the St. Petersburg Journal for Everyone. Mirolyubov invited Alexander Ivanovich to the post of secretary of the journal. He agreed and in the fall of 1901 moved to St. Petersburg.
In the city on the Neva there was a meeting with Maxim Gorky. Kuprin wrote about this man in his letter to Chekhov in 1902: “I met Gorky. There is something severe, ascetic, preaching in it.” In 1903, the Gorky publishing house "Knowledge" published the first volume of Alexander Kuprin's stories.
In 1905, a very important event took place in the writer's creative life. Again, the publishing house "Knowledge" published his story "Duel". It was followed by other works: "Dreams", "Mechanical Justice", "Wedding", "River of Life", "Gambrinus", "Killer", "Delirium", "Resentment". All of them were a response to the first Russian revolution and expressed dreams of freedom.
Years of reaction followed the revolution. During this period, obscure philosophical and political views began to be clearly visible in the works of the classic. At the same time, he created works that have become worthy examples of Russian classical literature. Here you can name "Garnet Bracelet", "Holy Lies", "Pit", "Grunya", "Starlings", etc. In the same period, the idea of the novel "Junker" was born.
During the February Revolution Alexander Ivanovich lived in Gatchina. He warmly welcomed the abdication of the sovereign and the transfer of power to the Provisional Government. But the October Revolution was perceived negatively. He published articles in bourgeois newspapers that were published until the middle of 1918, in which he questioned the reorganization of society on socialist lines. But gradually the tone of his articles began to change.
In the second half of 1918, Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin spoke with respect about the activities of the Bolshevik Party. In one of the articles, he even called the Bolsheviks people of "crystal purity." But apparently this man was characterized by doubts and hesitations. When Yudenich's troops occupied Gatchina in October 1919, the writer supported the new government, and then, together with the White Guard units, left Gatchina, fleeing from the advancing Red Army.
At first, he moved to Finland, and in 1920 he moved to France. For 17 years, the author of "Olesya" and "Duel" spent in a foreign land, living most of the time in Paris. It was a difficult but fruitful period. From the pen of the Russian classic came such collections of prose as “The Dome of St. Isaac Dolmatsky", "Wheel of Time", "Elan", as well as the novels "Janeta", "Junker".
Living abroad, Alexander Ivanovich had little idea of what was happening at home. He heard about the greatest achievements of Soviet power, about great construction projects, about universal equality and fraternity. All this aroused great interest in the soul of the classic. And every year he was more and more drawn to Russia.
In August 1936, the Plenipotentiary of the USSR in France, V.P. Potemkin, asked Stalin to allow Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin to come to the USSR. This issue was considered at the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and decided to allow the writer Kuprin to enter the country of the Soviets. On May 31, 1937, the great Russian classic returned to his homeland in the city of his youth - Moscow.
However, he came to Russia seriously ill. Alexander Ivanovich was weak, unable to work and could not write. In the summer of 1937, the newspaper Izvestia published an article entitled “Moscow is dear”. Under it was the signature of A. I. Kuprin. The article was laudatory, and each of its lines breathed admiration for socialist achievements. However, it is assumed that the article was written by another person, a Moscow journalist assigned to the writer.
On the night of August 25, 1938, Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin died at the age of 67. The cause of death was cancer of the esophagus. The classic was buried in the city of Leningrad at the "Literary bridges" of the Volkovsky cemetery, not far from Turgenev's grave. This is how the talented Russian writer ended his life, embodying in his works the best traditions of Russian literature of the 19th century..
Ivan Bunin was one of the greatest writers in Russian literature.
The childhood of the writer, who was born in Voronezh, in 1870, passed on the Butyrki farm, near Yelets. Due to a complete inability to do arithmetic and general ill health, Ivan could not study at the gymnasium and after spending 2 years in the 3rd grade, he receives a home education. His teacher was an ordinary student of Moscow University.
From the late 1880s, he began to publish his provincial poems. The very first story sent to the journal Russkoye Bogatstvo made admiration for the publisher Mikhailovsky, the author of one of the classic articles about Leo Tolstoy. Bunin is again studying at the gymnasium, but in 1886 he was expelled because he did not have time. For the next 4 years, he lives on his estate, where he is taught by his older brother. In 1889, fate throws him to Kharkov, where he has a rapprochement with the populists. In 1891, his first work, Poems 1887-1891, was published. And at the same time, I begin to publish his works, which have gained immense popularity. In 1900, the story "Antonov apples" appeared, which depicts Russian estates with their own way of life. This work has become a masterpiece of modern prose. Literally 3 years later, Bunin was awarded the Pushkin Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Having been unsuccessfully married 2 times, the writer meets Vera Nikolaevna Muromtseva in St. Petersburg, who was his wife until his last breath. The honeymoon trip, which took place in the eastern countries, was the result of the release of a cycle of essays “The Shadow of a Bird”. When Bunin became a well-known and wealthy gentleman in literary circles, he began to constantly travel and spent almost all the cold season traveling around Turkey, Asia Minor, Greece, Egypt, and Syria.
1909 was a special year for Ivan Alekseevich. He was elected an honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A year later, his first serious work, The Village, was born, where the writer spoke tragically about catastrophic modernity. Hardly survived the October Revolution, the Bunins go to Odessa, and then emigrate to Constantinople. At first, the life of the writer did not develop in the best way. He was gradually running out of money. In 1921, the work “The Gentleman from San Francisco” was published, where Bunin shows the meaninglessness of material human existence. But there were also bright days in his life.
Literary fame in Europe increased, and when once again the question arose of which of the Russian writers would be the first to enter the ranks of Nobel laureates, his name surfaced by itself. On November 9, 1933, Bunin received this award. The financial problem is gone. Reissues followed. Before the war, the writer lived quietly, but in 1936 he was arrested in Germany and soon released. In 1943, his famous "Dark Alleys" came out. Ivan Alekseevich in the last years of his life worked on the book "Memoirs". The writer never finished this work. Bunin died on November 8, 1953 in Paris.
Very briefly
On September 7, 1870, the remarkable writer Kuprin Alexander Ivanovich was born. Immediately after birth, he was left without a father who died of a terrible disease. After 4 years, my mother is forced to move to Moscow. Despite strong love, she sends him to an orphanage school, due to the difficult financial situation.
Later, Kuprin is accepted into a military gymnasium, and he remains to live in Moscow. His talent for writing began to unfold during his school years, and he released his first work in 1889, entitled "The Last Debut", but not everyone approved of it and he receives a reprimand.
In In 1890-1894. he goes to serve near Podolsk. Having finished, he begins to move from city to city and stops at Sevastopol. He did not have a job, so very often there was nothing to eat, despite his service and rank. Despite this, Kuprin at that time was formed as a writer, thanks to good relations with I. A. Bunin, A. P. Chekhov and M. Gorky. And he writes several stories that are in great demand and he is awarded the Pushkin Prize.
When the war began, he did not hesitate to volunteer. In 1915 he was forced to leave due to poor health. But even here he managed to do a useful thing by organizing a hospital at home. After he supported the revolution in 1917 and collaborated with the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. But for unknown reasons, he decides to leave for France and continues his activities there. Then he returns to the USSR, where he was not welcomed so well. On August 25, 1938 he dies in Leningrad.
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Biography of Kuprin Alexander Ivanovich
Alexander Kuprin, one of the most famous writers in Russia, was born in a family far from literature, from the capital. His father, a petty official, died when his son was barely a year old. Together with his mother, the family moved to Moscow, where the future prose writer spent his childhood and youth.
Petersburg Slava Kuprin
In St. Petersburg, Alexander Kuprin was too late for this city to fall at his feet at once. The writer was a little over 30. Behind him was not a very successful military career, which ended in the rank of lieutenant, and seven years of ordeal in Kyiv. There Kuprin, who did not have any civilian specialty, tried many professions and settled on literature.
Kuprin practically did not write major works in terms of the number of pages. But he always managed to depict the whole world in a story from a couple of book sheets. The writer's plots are original and dramaturgically tightly tailored: no superfluous words or characters. The reading public immediately noticed the accuracy in everything: in descriptions, epithets, meaning. And Petersburg instantly accepted Kuprin.
At the beginning of the 20th century, he was called everywhere, just to recite his stories. And the enthusiastic audience flooded the stage with flowers, where Alexander Ivanovich read his stories. Kuprin became a literary star. His St. Petersburg seems simple and ordinary, but in Kuprin's stories the city is just a scene. The people who live and work in the northern capital come to the fore.
The main hit of St. Petersburg literary salons at the beginning of the 20th century was the spy story “Staff Captain Rybnikov”. Kuprin read this work for an encore everywhere: in salons, restaurants, student audiences. Actual themes and impeccable dramatic plot riveted the attention of the public. Kuprin was especially pleased. It was at this time that the writer, who lived in St. Petersburg for about a week, became a candidate for deputies of the first State Duma of the Russian Empire.
Relations with Kuprin's authorities
Kuprin loved his homeland. But the World War that began in 1914 changed him. Now patriotism has become the meaning of his whole life. In the newspapers, the writer campaigned for war loans. And at home, in the Gatchina house, he opened a small military hospital. Kuprin was even called up for war, but he was already weak in health then. Soon he was commissioned.
Returning from the front, Kuprin again began to write a lot. There is more of Petersburg in his stories. Bolsheviks Alexander Kuprin did not accept. They, with their animal desire for power and bestial cruelty, were disgusting to him. According to his views, Kuprin was close to the Socialist-Revolutionaries: not to those who were part of military organizations, but to peaceful socialist revolutionaries.
Kuprin worked as a journalist in Gatchina, but often visited Petrograd. He came to Lenin's reception with a proposal to publish a special newspaper for the village called "Earth". However, the problems of the village interested the Bolsheviks only in words. The newspaper was not established, and Kuprin was imprisoned for 3 days. Having released, they were included in the list of hostages, that is, on any day they could put a bullet in the forehead. Kuprin did not wait and went to the whites.
Kuprin's emigration
There he did not fight, but was engaged in journalism. But he never stopped writing stories. He settled his characters in Petrograd, which was close to him. Kuprin did not accept the new government at all, he called it the Soviet of Deputies, and in the end he was forced to emigrate.
Soviet propaganda destroyed the emigrant Kuprin. Political literary critics close to the Kremlin wrote that abroad, the once talented Russian writer went downhill: all he does is drink heavily and write nothing. It wasn't true. Kuprin wrote just as much, but the Petersburg scenery in his stories became less and less.
After 15 years, he wrote a petition to be allowed to return to the USSR. Stalin gave such consent, and Kuprin returned to those places from which he fled during the civil war. In 1937, suffering from cancer, Kuprin returned to his homeland to die. He died a year later, and the authorities of the country of the Soviets began posthumously to make the writer their own.
It wasn't easy. Petersburg Kuprin with his people did not overlap like a transparent tracing paper on the appearance of the city of three revolutions with the name of Lenin. These were two different cities. Whether he recognized Soviet power is definitely difficult to say. But Kuprin could not live without Russia.
Born in the Arkhangelsk region in 1936, Nikolai Mikhailovich Rubtsov grew up in an orphanage. His father was sent to war, and his mother was lost during the war years.
A.I. Kuprin is a bright representative of Russian critical realism, whose work fell on the most difficult pre- and post-revolutionary years of the 20th century.
Writer Kuprin Alexander Ivanovich (1870 - 1938).
Young years
Alexander was born in the small town of Narovchat (today it is the Penza region) on August 26, 1870. He was orphaned very early (his father died when the child was one year old; a period of considerable material difficulties began for a mother with a young son). Mother managed to give Sasha an education: having moved to Moscow, he studied at the Moscow Razumovsky boarding school.
In 1887, Alexander was accepted as a student at the Alexander Military School. The years of study became for him a period of accumulation of experience and the first literary works. In 1889 he published a story, which he gave the title "The Last Debut".
Stormy youth and the beginning of maturity
After studying for about 4 years, Kuprin served in the Dnieper Infantry Regiment, and then, after retiring, he traveled around the south of Russia and tried himself in various professions: from a loader to a dentist. At this time, he is already beginning to actively write. The story “Moloch”, the story “Olesya”, which later became classics, the stories “Shulamith” and “Garnet Bracelet” are published. From the writer's pen came the story "The Duel", which brought him literary fame.
During the First World War, Kuprin opened a military hospital in his own house, and participated in hostilities. He was interested in politics, in his views he was close to the Social Revolutionaries.
Emigration and return home
Kuprin did not accept the October Revolution, joined the White movement, and emigrated in 1919. For 17 years he lived in Paris, while continuing to work. One of the most significant works of this period is the story "Junker", based on memoirs. Diseases, poverty, nostalgia for Russia forced the writer to return to the Soviet Union in 1937. But he had only a year to live - Alexander Ivanovich died on August 25, 1938.
His works, whose heroes are representatives of the poor intelligentsia and the common people, have not lost their relevance in our time. The heroes of Kuprin love life, they are trying to survive, to resist the surrounding cynicism and vulgarity. They live in a natural, changing world, where they are forever intertwined and have an endless dispute between Good and Evil.
Information about Kuprin briefly.
In literature, the name of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is associated with an important transitional stage at the turn of two centuries. Not the last role in this was played by a historical breakdown in the political and public life of Russia. This factor undoubtedly had the strongest influence on the writer's work. A. I. Kuprin is a man of unusual fate and strong character. Almost all of his works are based on real events. An ardent fighter for justice sharply, boldly and at the same time lyrically created his masterpieces, which were included in the golden fund of Russian literature.
Kuprin was born in 1870 in the town of Narovchat, Penza province. His father, a small landowner, died suddenly when the future writer was only a year old. Left with his mother and two sisters, he grew up enduring hunger and all sorts of hardships. Experiencing serious financial difficulties associated with the death of her husband, the mother placed her daughters in a government boarding school, and together with little Sasha moved to Moscow.
Kuprin's mother, Lyubov Alekseevna, was a proud woman, as she was a descendant of a noble Tatar family, as well as a native Muscovite. But she had to make a difficult decision for herself - to give her son up for education in an orphanage school.
Kuprin's childhood years, spent within the walls of the boarding house, were bleak, and his inner state always seemed depressed. He felt out of place, felt bitterness from the constant oppression of his personality. Indeed, given the origin of the mother, which the boy was always very proud of, the future writer, as he grew up and became, showed himself as an emotional, active and charismatic person.
Youth and education
After graduating from the orphan school, Kuprin entered a military gymnasium, which was later transformed into a cadet corps.
This event largely influenced the further fate of Alexander Ivanovich and, first of all, his work. After all, it was from the beginning of his studies at the gymnasium that he first revealed an interest in writing, and the image of Lieutenant Romashov from the famous story “Duel” is the prototype of the author himself.
Service in an infantry regiment allowed Kuprin to visit many remote cities and provinces of Russia, to study military affairs, the basics of army discipline and drill. The theme of officer everyday life has taken a strong position in many works of art by the author, which subsequently caused controversial debates in society.
It would seem that a military career is the fate of Alexander Ivanovich. But his rebellious nature did not allow this to materialize. By the way, the service was completely alien to him. There is a version that Kuprin, being under the influence of alcohol, threw a police officer off the bridge into the water. In connection with this incident, he soon retired and left military affairs forever.
History of success
Leaving the service, Kuprin experienced an urgent need to obtain comprehensive knowledge. Therefore, he began to actively travel around Russia, get to know people, draw from communication with them a lot of new and useful things for himself. At the same time, Alexander Ivanovich sought to try his hand at various professions. He gained experience in the field of land surveyors, circus performers, fishermen, even pilots. However, one of the flights almost ended in tragedy: as a result of the plane crash, Kuprin almost died.
He also worked with interest as a journalist in various print media, wrote notes, essays, articles. The vein of an adventurer allowed him to successfully develop everything he started. He was open to everything new and absorbed what was happening around him like a sponge. Kuprin was a researcher by nature: he eagerly studied human nature, wanted to experience all the facets of interpersonal communication for himself. Therefore, during military service, faced with obvious officer licentiousness, hazing and humiliation of human dignity, the creator in a revealing manner formed the basis for writing his most famous works, such as "Duel", "Junkers", "At the Turn (Cadets)".
The writer built the plots of all his works, relying solely on personal experience and memories received by him during his service and travels in Russia. Openness, simplicity, sincerity of the presentation of thoughts, as well as the reliability of the description of the images of the characters became the key to the author's success in the literary path.
Creation
Kuprin wholeheartedly yearned for his people, and his explosive and honest nature, due to the Tatar origin of his mother, would not allow him to distort in writing those facts about the life of people whom he personally witnessed.
However, Alexander Ivanovich did not condemn all of his characters, even bringing their dark sides to the surface. Being a humanist and a desperate fighter for justice, Kuprin figuratively demonstrated this feature of his in the work "The Pit". It tells about the life of the inhabitants of brothels. But the writer does not focus on the heroines as fallen women, on the contrary, he invites readers to understand the prerequisites for their fall, in the torment of their hearts and souls, he offers to see in every whore, first of all, a person.
More than one of Kuprin's works is saturated with the theme of love. The most striking of them is the story "". In it, as in "The Pit", there is an image of a narrator, an explicit or implicit participant in the events described. But the narrator in Oles is one of the two main characters. This is a story about noble love, partly the heroine considers herself unworthy of it, whom everyone takes for a witch. However, the girl has nothing to do with her. On the contrary, her image embodies all possible female virtues. The ending of the story cannot be called happy, because the characters do not reunite in their sincere impulse, but are forced to lose each other. But happiness lies for them in the fact that they had a chance in life to experience the power of all-consuming mutual love.
Of course, the story "Duel" deserves special attention as a reflection of all the horrors of army customs that reigned then in tsarist Russia. This is a vivid confirmation of the features of realism in the work of Kuprin. Perhaps that is why the story caused a flurry of negative reviews from critics and the public. The hero of Romashov, in the same rank of second lieutenant as Kuprin himself, who once retired, like the author, appears before readers in the light of an extraordinary personality, whose psychological growth we have the opportunity to observe from page to page. This book brought wide fame to its creator and rightfully occupies one of the central places in his bibliography.
Kuprin did not support the revolution in Russia, although at first he met quite often with Lenin. Ultimately, the writer emigrated to France, where he continued his literary work. In particular, Alexander Ivanovich liked to write for children. Some of his stories ("White Poodle", "", "Starlings") undoubtedly deserve the attention of the target audience.
Personal life
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin was married twice. The first wife of the writer was Maria Davydova, the daughter of a famous cellist musician. In marriage, a daughter, Lydia, was born, who later died during her birth. The only grandson of Kuprin, who was born, died from wounds received during the Second World War.
The second time the writer married Elizabeth Heinrich, with whom he lived until the end of his days. The marriage produced two daughters, Zinaida and Xenia. But the first died in early childhood from pneumonia, and the second became a famous actress. However, the continuation of the Kuprin family did not follow, and today he has no direct descendants.
The second wife of Kuprin survived him by only four years and, unable to withstand the ordeal of hunger during the siege of Leningrad, committed suicide.
- Kuprin was proud of his Tatar origin, so he often put on a national caftan and skullcap, going out in such attire to people, went to visit.
- Partly thanks to his acquaintance with I. A. Bunin, Kuprin became a writer. Bunin once turned to him with a request to write a note on a topic of interest to him, which marked the beginning of the literary activity of Alexander Ivanovich.
- The author was famous for his sense of smell. Once, while visiting Fyodor Chaliapin, he shocked everyone present, overshadowing the invited perfumer with his unique flair, unmistakably recognizing all the components of the new fragrance. Sometimes, when meeting new people, Alexander Ivanovich sniffed them, thereby putting everyone in an awkward position. It was said that this helped him better understand the essence of the person in front of him.
- Throughout his life, Kuprin changed about twenty professions.
- After meeting A. P. Chekhov in Odessa, the writer went to St. Petersburg at his invitation to work in a well-known magazine. Since then, the author has acquired a reputation as a brawler and drunkard, as he often took part in entertainment events in a new environment for himself.
- The first wife, Maria Davydova, tried to eradicate some disorganization inherent in Alexander Ivanovich. If he fell asleep during work, she deprived him of breakfast, or forbade him to enter the house if the new chapters of the work on which he was working at that time were not ready.
- The first monument to A.I. Kuprin was erected only in 2009 in Balaklava in the Crimea. This is due to the fact that in 1905, during the Ochakov uprising of sailors, the writer helped them hide, thereby saving their lives.
- There were legends about the drunkenness of the writer. In particular, the wits repeated the well-known saying: "If the truth is in wine, how many truths are there in Kuprin?"
Death
The writer returned from emigration to the USSR in 1937, but already in poor health. He had hopes that a second wind would open in his homeland, he would improve his condition and be able to write again. At that time, Kuprin's vision was rapidly deteriorating.
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Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is a famous Russian writer. His works, woven from real life stories, are filled with "fatal" passions and exciting emotions. Heroes and villains come to life on the pages of his books, from privates to generals. And all this against the backdrop of unfading optimism and piercing love for life, which the writer Kuprin gives to his readers.
Biography
He was born in 1870 in the city of Narovchat in the family of an official. A year after the birth of the boy, the father dies, and the mother moves to Moscow. Here is the childhood of the future writer. At the age of six, he was sent to the Razumovsky boarding school, and after graduation in 1880, to the Cadet Corps. At the age of 18, after graduation, Alexander Kuprin, whose biography is inextricably linked with military affairs, enters the Alexander Cadet School. Here he writes his first work, The Last Debut, which was published in 1889.
creative path
After graduating from college, Kuprin was enrolled in an infantry regiment. Here he spends 4 years. An officer's life provides the richest material for him. During this time, his stories "In the Dark", "Overnight", "Moonlight Night" and others are published. In 1894, after the resignation of Kuprin, whose biography begins with a clean slate, he moves to Kyiv. The writer tries various professions, gaining precious life experience, as well as ideas for his future works. In subsequent years, he traveled a lot around the country. The result of his wanderings are the famous stories "Moloch", "Olesya", as well as the stories "The Werewolf" and "The Wilderness".
In 1901, the writer Kuprin began a new stage in his life. His biography continues in St. Petersburg, where he marries M. Davydova. Here his daughter Lydia and new masterpieces are born: the story "Duel", as well as the stories "White Poodle", "Swamp", "River of Life" and others. In 1907, the prose writer marries again and has a second daughter, Xenia. This period is the heyday in the author's work. He writes the famous stories "Garnet Bracelet" and "Shulamith". In his works of this period, Kuprin, whose biography unfolds against the backdrop of two revolutions, shows his fear for the fate of the entire Russian people.
Emigration
In 1919 the writer emigrates to Paris. Here he spends 17 years of his life. This stage of the creative path is the most fruitless in the life of a prose writer. Homesickness, as well as a constant lack of funds, forced him to return home in 1937. But creative plans are not destined to come true. Kuprin, whose biography has always been associated with Russia, writes the essay "Moscow is dear." The disease progresses, and in August 1938 the writer dies of cancer in Leningrad.
Artworks
Among the most famous works of the writer are the stories "Moloch", "Duel", "Pit", the stories "Olesya", "Garnet Bracelet", "Gambrinus". Kuprin's work affects various aspects of human life. He writes about pure love and prostitution, about heroes and the decaying atmosphere of army life. There is only one thing missing in these works - that which can leave the reader indifferent.
