Alexander Kuprin: writer's biography

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is a famous Russian writer. His works, woven from real life stories, are filled with "fatal" passions and emotional emotions. On the pages of his books, heroes and villains come to life, from the rank and file to the generals. And all this against the backdrop of unfading optimism and piercing love of life, which gives the readers the writer Kuprin.

Biography

He was born in 1870 in the town of Narovchat (Penza province) 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. In six years he was given to Razumovsky boarding house, and after his graduation in 1880 - to the Cadet Corps. At the age of 18, after graduation, Alexander Kuprin, whose biography is inseparably linked with the military case, enters the Aleksandrovskoye Junker School. Here he writes his first work "The Last Debut", which saw the light in 1889.

Creative way

After graduation, Kuprin enlisted in the infantry regiment. Here he spends 4 years. Officer life gives the richest material for his literary work. 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 Kiev. The writer tries various professions, gaining valuable life experience, as well as ideas for his future works. In subsequent years he travels a lot around the country. The result of his wanderings are the famous stories "Moloch", "Olesya", as well as the stories "Werewolf" and "Forest Wilderness".

In 1901 the writer Kuprin started a new stage of 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 stories "White Poodle", "Swamp", "River of Life" and others. In 1907, the prose writer again marries and acquires a second daughter, Xenia. This period is a flourishing in the author's work. He writes well-known stories "Pomegranate Bracelet" and "Sulamith". In his works of this period, Kuprin, whose biography unfolds against the background of two revolutions, shows his own fear for the fate of the entire Russian people.

Emigration

In 1919, the writer emigrated to Paris. Here he spends 17 years of his life. This stage of the creative path is the most unfruitful in the life of the prose writer. Yearning for home, as well as a constant shortage of funds forced him to return home in 1937. But creative plans do not come true. Kuprin, whose biography has always been associated with Russia, writes an essay "Moscow native". The disease progresses, and in August 1938 in Leningrad from cancer writer dies.

Works

Among the most famous works of the writer you can note the stories "Moloch", "Duel", "Pit", stories "Olesya", "Pomegranate Bracelet", "Gambrinus". Creativity Kuprin touches on various aspects of human life. He writes about pure love and prostitution, about heroes and decaying atmosphere of army life. There is in these works only one thing - one that can leave the reader indifferent.