Aleksandr Kuprin

Aleksandr Kuprin was born on September 7, 1870 in Narovchat, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire [now Penza Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for The Coward (1914), Poyedinok (1957) and Granatovyy braslet (1965). He was previously married to Yelizaveta Maritsovna Geinrikh and Maria Karlovna Davydova. He died on August 25, 1938 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].