caption movement death_date death_place birth_place influences awards notableworks birth_date signature genre image article_title name occupation
kuprin naturalism 25 august 1938 leningrad , soviet union narovchat , penza , governorate , russian empire anton chekhov , leo tolstoy pushkin prize '' junior captain rybnikov '' september 7 1870 august 26 alexander ivanovich kuprin signature.jpg short stories alexander ivanovich kuprin 7.jpg aleksandr kuprin
 aleksandr kuprin writer , pilot , explorer , and adventurer
aleksandr kuprin

aleksandr ivanovich kuprin -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- in the village of narovchat in the penza oblast -- 25 august 1938 in leningrad -rrb- was a russian writer , pilot , explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story `` the duel '' -lrb- 1905 -rrb- .
other well-known works include `` moloch '' -lrb- 1896 -rrb- , `` olesya '' -lrb- 1898 -rrb- , `` junior captain rybnikov '' -lrb- 1906 -rrb- , `` emerald '' -lrb- 1907 -rrb- , and `` the garnet bracelet '' -lrb- 1911 -rrb- -lrb- which was made into a 1965 movie -rrb- .
