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Alexander Kuprin Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin [Narovchat, now Penza region - was born in the family of a poor official. In the year he left the service, moved to Kyiv and devoted himself to literary work he began to be published in the year. I traveled around the country, mainly in the south of Russia, changed many professions. He lived in St. Petersburg since the year.

In the year he met Anton Chekhov, in the year - with Maxim Gorky and a group of writers, "Znanevers". In the year, he published in the collection "Knowledge" his best work - the novel "Stug". During the years of reaction, after the defeat of the revolution, he experienced a creative decline. In the fall of the year, Kuprin was in Gatchina, cut off from Petrograd by the White Guard forces of General Yudenich, from where he emigrated abroad with his family, where he spent 17 years mainly in Paris, experiencing constant material deprivations and acute longing for Russia.

In the spring of the year, seriously ill, he returned to his homeland. The most fruitful is the work of Kuprin of the pre -emigrant era, especially during the period of social upsurge before and during the revolution. The history of domestic literature entered as the author of stories and novels: “Moloch”, “Olesya”, “Duel”, “Yama” 1st part, the 2nd part, and also as a large master of the story: “In the circus”, “Swamp”, “Trus”, “Conocradu” both are, “peaceful life”, “measles” both - “headquarters” of the fishing captain, “headquarters” “Gambrinus”, “Emerald” both -, “Sulamith”, “Pomegranate Bracelet”, “Librahons”, “Black Lightning”, “Anathema” both - and others.

In the emigrant period, the novels “Junker” and “Zhenet”, several essays and stories are the latter - mainly according to the memoirs. Kuprin belonged to the galaxy of writers of critical realism. Most of his works are witty and topical: "Moloch" - a sharp denunciation of bourgeois "progress"; "Duel" exposes the royal army; "Pit" is an attempt to help a modern society to get an ulcer of prostitution.

The artist is truthful and vital, who wrote only that he himself saw, survived and felt, Kuprin turned his work to a wide democratic audience; In the center of his works is usually the “average” Russian intellectual - a worker, a heartfelt, conscientious person, heavily vulnerable to life contradictions; An important place in the works of Kuprin is occupied by colorful images of ordinary people from the people.

The writer is inclined to the image of the psychology of "group", "professional", established, often encountered. Litigation, humanism, plastic power of descriptions, the wealth of the language make Kuprin one of the most read writers today. Many of his works are staged and filmed; They are translated into a number of foreign languages.