Капитан (Russian Edition) By Aleksandr Kuprin Kindle Edition Капитан (Russian Edition) Рассказ Александра Ивановича Куприна (1870—1938), впервые опубликованный в 1914 году. «Благодарю вас, господин. Если вы позволите… я не пью пива… Стакан рому, — это так… Ну вот, я и продолжаю. Вы спрашиваете, как я попал на корабль «Утренняя звезда»? Да очень просто! Чего только не предпримешь, когда тебе двадцать четыре года, а ты холост и свободен, как ветер? В то время я околачивался в Новороссийске. Прекрасная бухта, только не осенью, когда там свирепствует норд ост — по местному, бора».
Aleksandr Kuprin Russian 7 September 1870 in the village of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast August 25 1938 in Leningrad was a Russian writer pilot explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel 1905 Other well known works include Moloch 1896 Olesya 1898 Junior Captain Rybnikov 1906 Emerald 1907 and The Garnet Bracelet 1911 which was made into a 1965 movie Vladimir Nabokov styled him the Russian Kipling for his stories about pathetic adventure seekers who are often neurotic and vulnerable. Kuprin was a son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin a minor government official who died of cholera during 1871 at the age of thirty seven years His mother Liubov Alekseevna Kuprina Tatar princess of the Kulunchakovs like many other nobles in Russia had lost most of her wealth during the 19th century Kuprin attended the Razumovsky boarding school during 1876 and during 1880 finished his education in the Second Moscow Military High School Cadet Corps and Alexander Military School spending a total of ten years in these elite military institutions His first short story The Last Debut was published during 1889 in a satirical periodical In February 1902 Kuprin and Maria Karlovna Davydova were married their daughter Lidia born in 1903 Kuprin s mother died during 1910. Kuprin ended military service during 1894 after which he tried many types of job including provincial journalism dental care land surveying acting circus performer church singer doctor hunter fisher etc Reportedly all of these were subsequently reflected in his fiction His first essays were published in Kiev in two collections Reportedly although he lived in an age when writers were carried away by literary experiments Kuprin did not seek innovation and wrote only about the things he himself had experienced and his heroes are the next generation after Chekhov s pessimists. Although the 1896 short story Moloch first made his name known as a writer it was his novel The Duel 1905 which made him famous Kuprin was highly praised by fellow writers including Anton Chekhov Maxim Gorky Leonid Andreyev Nobel Prize winning Ivan Bunin and Leo Tolstoy who acclaimed him a true successor to Chekhov After publication of The Duel he paid less and less interest to fancy literature and began to spend time in pubs and brothels His sensationalist novel about the lurid life of prostitutes The Pit 1915 was accused by Russian critics of excessive Naturalism. Although not a conservative he did not agree with Bolshevism While working for a brief time with Maxim Gorky at the World Literature publishing company he criticized the Soviet regime During spring 1919 from Gatchina near Petrograd Kuprin left the country for France He lived in Paris for most of the next 17 years succumbing to alcoholism He wrote about this in much of his work He eventually returned to Moscow on May 31 1937 just a year before his death at the height of the Great Purge His return earned publication of his works within the Soviet Union. Kuprin died during the spring of 1938 in Leningrad and is interred near his fellow writers at the Literaturskiye Mostki in the Volkovo Cemetery Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Leningrad A minor planet 3618 Kuprin discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him, Reportedly even today Alexander Kuprin remains one of the widest read classics in Russian literature.
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Aleksandr Kuprin Russian 7 September 1870 in the village of Narovchat in the Penza Oblast August 25 1938 in Leningrad was a Russian writer pilot explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel 1905 Other well known works include Moloch 1896 Olesya 1898 Junior Captain Rybnikov 1906 Emerald 1907 and The Garnet Bracelet 1911 which was made into a 1965 movie Vladimir Nabokov styled him the Russian Kipling for his stories about pathetic adventure seekers who are often neurotic and vulnerable. Kuprin was a son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin a minor government official who died of cholera during 1871 at the age of thirty seven years His mother Liubov Alekseevna Kuprina Tatar princess of the Kulunchakovs like many other nobles in Russia had lost most of her wealth during the 19th century Kuprin attended the Razumovsky boarding school during 1876 and during 1880 finished his education in the Second Moscow Military High School Cadet Corps and Alexander Military School spending a total of ten years in these elite military institutions His first short story The Last Debut was published during 1889 in a satirical periodical In February 1902 Kuprin and Maria Karlovna Davydova were married their daughter Lidia born in 1903 Kuprin s mother died during 1910. Kuprin ended military service during 1894 after which he tried many types of job including provincial journalism dental care land surveying acting circus performer church singer doctor hunter fisher etc Reportedly all of these were subsequently reflected in his fiction His first essays were published in Kiev in two collections Reportedly although he lived in an age when writers were carried away by literary experiments Kuprin did not seek innovation and wrote only about the things he himself had experienced and his heroes are the next generation after Chekhov s pessimists. Although the 1896 short story Moloch first made his name known as a writer it was his novel The Duel 1905 which made him famous Kuprin was highly praised by fellow writers including Anton Chekhov Maxim Gorky Leonid Andreyev Nobel Prize winning Ivan Bunin and Leo Tolstoy who acclaimed him a true successor to Chekhov After publication of The Duel he paid less and less interest to fancy literature and began to spend time in pubs and brothels His sensationalist novel about the lurid life of prostitutes The Pit 1915 was accused by Russian critics of excessive Naturalism. Although not a conservative he did not agree with Bolshevism While working for a brief time with Maxim Gorky at the World Literature publishing company he criticized the Soviet regime During spring 1919 from Gatchina near Petrograd Kuprin left the country for France He lived in Paris for most of the next 17 years succumbing to alcoholism He wrote about this in much of his work He eventually returned to Moscow on May 31 1937 just a year before his death at the height of the Great Purge His return earned publication of his works within the Soviet Union. Kuprin died during the spring of 1938 in Leningrad and is interred near his fellow writers at the Literaturskiye Mostki in the Volkovo Cemetery Volkovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Leningrad A minor planet 3618 Kuprin discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him, Reportedly even today Alexander Kuprin remains one of the widest read classics in Russian literature.