I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

His first short story The Last Debut was publiAleksandr Kuprind in 1889 in a satirical periodical. "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. " His first essays were publiAleksandr Kuprind in Kiev in two collections.

Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Купри́н) (7 September [O. ". 26 August] 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).