Duel

Kuprin’s story “Duel” is one of the most piercing and dramatic works of classical Russian literature of the beginning of the last century.

Step by step before the reader, the story of the hopeless existence of the very young officer of Romashov, which is exhausting in the suffocating atmosphere of the garrison town, with his vulgar gossip and marital treason, boredom and trouble -free drunkenness, is unfolding. In an atmosphere, where even his pure and bright love in a young woman standing out among her philistine environment can only lead to very sad consequences...

The collection also includes stories of different years: “Night Change”, “In barracks ”,“ wedding ”,“ one -armed commandant ”.