Aleksandr Kuprin
Aleksandr Kuprin · Vokrugsveta, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Aleksandr Kuprin

1870 – 1938 · aged 68

Russian writer (1870–1938)

Born
1870 · Narovchat
Died
25 Aug 1938 · Saint Petersburg

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 78 years
  1. 1870BornBorn in Narovchat
  2. 1909AwardPushkin Prize
  3. 25 Aug 1938DiedDied in Saint Petersburg

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1870 – 1938).

  1. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  2. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  3. 1898Spanish–American War
  4. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  5. 1914 – 1918World War I
  6. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  7. 1917Balfour Declaration
  8. 1917February Revolution
  9. 1917October Revolution
  10. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  11. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  12. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  13. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  14. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  16. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  17. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1938Munich Agreement

Biography

Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Russian: Александр Иванович Куприн; 7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1870 – 25 August 1938) 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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