Alexander Kuprin

Alexander Kuprin (1870-1938), born in Narovchat, in the province of Penza, grew up in Moscow and spent about ten years in military schools. A second lieutenant in an infantry regiment, he left the army in 1894 and then took up all sorts of trades, from which he drew the material of his books. A story of 1896 made his first reputation. He left Russia in 1919 and lived almost seventeen years in Paris, then returned to the Soviet Union and died in Leningrad in 1938.

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• NarrativeThe DuelПоединокAlexander Kuprin · 1905LiteraturePublic domain