The Duel

Alexander Invanovich Kuprin - is a Russian artist of the first water, writer-realist, apprentice and successor of literary traditions of Lev Tolstoy. The novel "the Duel" is justly considered to be the most significant work of his. Basing on own experience of service, Kuprin uncompromisingly and truly described provincial manners and obscenity of officers; thereby waves of disfavor and admiration ...