Her book of memoirs Years of Youth (Годы молодости, 1966) came out
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Aleksandr Kuprin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin was a Russian writer best known for his novels The Duel (1905) and Yama: The Pit (1915), as well as Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Captain Ribnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911) – the latter made into a 1965 movie.
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culture · Russian author (1870–1938) · writer · aircraft pilot · novelist · screenwriter · poet · children's writer · prose writer · short story writer · also Aleksandr Kuprin, Aleksandr I. Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin, Aleksandr Kuprine, Alexandre Kuprine, Kuprin
Born 26 August 1870 · Died 25 August 1938 · Q271457
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1966· 1 entry
1958· 1 entry
Worked as stage actress, translator, author and scriptwriter
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1938· 1 entry
Died 1938-08-25.
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1928· 1 entry
To attend a conference of Russian writers who had also emigrated
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1925· 2 entries
“The more talented a man is, the harder is for him life without Russia,”
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Inspired "Crimson Blood" (1926), a colorful account of a bullfight in Bayonne, followed in 1927 by "The Blessed South", four sketches on Gascony and the Hautes-Pyrénées
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1911· 1 entry
Moved his family to Gatchina, near Saint Petersburg
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1909· 2 entries
Awarded Pushkin Prize (1909).
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The second in 1914, and the third in 1915
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1908· 2 entries
Kuprin started working on The Pit, his most ambitious and controversial work
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Kuprin's relationship with Gorky deteriorated, and he quit Znanye
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1907· 2 entries
Divorced his first wife - and married Yelizaveta Geinrikh (1882–1943), who in 1908 gave birth to their daughter Ksenia Kuprina
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The couple married and settled in Gatchina
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1905· 1 entry
Kuprin described Miniatures as his "first childish steps along the road of literature"
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1904· 1 entry
Kuprin started working on The Duel
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1902· 2 entries
Maria Karlovna took over it and soon Kuprin became the head of the fiction section of his wife's journal
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“if the quantity of his writing was reduced – some twenty tales in all – its quality was incomparably higher... More conscious now of the blatant contrasts prevalent in Russian society, he turned his attention to the plight of the”
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1901· 1 entry
Kuprin joined the Moscow Sreda (Wednesday) literary society, which was founded in 1899 by Nikolay Teleshov, and united mostly the young realist writers, among whom were Gorky, Bunin, and Leonid Andreyev
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1897· 2 entries
Kuprin traveled to Volhynia to work as an estate manager, then went to the Polesye area in Southern Belorussia, where he helped to grow makhorka
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Had written unflatteringly of Moloch) now praised Kuprin's compact style and his ability to convey a feeling of effervescent joie de vivre
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1896· 1 entry
Russkoye Bogatstvo published Moloch, Kuprin's first major work, a critique of the rapidly growing Russian capitalism and a reflection of the growing industrial unrest in the country
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1889· 1 entry
Aleksandr Kuprin met Liodor Palmin, an established poet who arranged for the publication in the Russian Satirical Leaflet of Kuprin's debut short story "The Last Debut", based on a real life incident, the 1881 suicide by
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1880· 1 entry
Inspired by Russia's victory in the Russo-Turkish War, Kuprin was enrolled into the Second Moscow Military High School, and turned over to the Cadet Corps in 1882
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1876· 1 entry
Entered the Razumovsky boarding school, the source of what he later referred to as 'childhood grievances', but also an environment which nourished his riotous nature and in which he found himself popular among peers a
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1870· 1 entry
Born 1870-08-26.
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