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Aleksandr Kuprin
Kuprin
Kuprin
Born 7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1870
Narovchat, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire
Died 25 August 1938(1938-08-25) (aged 67)
Leningrad, Soviet Union
Occupation writer, journalist
Genre short stories
Literary movement Naturalism
Notable works The Duel (1905)
The Garnet Bracelet (1911)
The Pit (1915)
Notable awards Pushkin Prize
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Купри́н; 7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1870  – 25 August 1938) was a Russian writer best known for his novels The Duel (1905) and The Pit, as well as Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Junior Captain Rybnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911) – the latter made into a 1965 movie.

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  • Alexander Iv. Kuprin

    Kuprin in the early 1890s

  • 1905 Aleksandr Kuprin the Duel

    Aleksander I. Kuprin, The Duel, Frontispiece (1905),1st edition, Saint Petersburg, Russia

  • 1907 Aleksandr Kuprin the Duel In Honours Name

    Aleksandr I. Kuprin's In Honour's Name [The Duel] (1907), 1st edition in English, London, trans. W. F. Harvey

  • Alexander Kuprin in WWI

    Kuprin and his wife during World War I

  • Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin 7

    Kuprin in the 1910s

  • Literator Bridges Grave Kuprin

    Alexander Kuprin's grave

  • Heinrich Liza

    Liza Geinrikh in 1909

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