Alexander Vasilievich Kuprin (Александр Васильевич Куприн) was a Russian painter, a member of the Jack of Diamond group. Kuprin was born in Borisoglebsk (in Voronezh Oblast,Russia) in 1880 and died in Moscow in 1960. His most famous works are various landscapes and still life.
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Александр Иванович Куприн, September 7, 1870 (August 26, 1870 OS) 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).
Kuprin's popularity spread quickly after Leo Tolstoy had acclaimed him as a true successor to Chekhov.
Kuprin is interred next to his fellow writers at the Volkovo Cemetery of Leningrad.
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