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| | NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Aleksandr Kuprin |
 | | Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Александр Иванович Куприн, September 7, 1870 in the Penza Oblast - August 25, 1938 in Leningrad) was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer whose best known novellas include Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), The Duel (1905), Junior Captain Rybnikov (1906), Emerald (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911). |
 | | Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin was born on 26 August 1870, in the village of Navrochat, Penza Province, Russia. |
 | | His father, Ivan Ivanovich Kuprin was a minor government official and died of cholera at the age of thirty-seven so, Kuprin and his mother moved to a Widows' Home in Moscow in 1874. |
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