Duel. Kuprin A.

“The fight” is one of the most famous novels of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938), a wonderful Russian prose writer with an amazing fate: the post-October revolution he went to exile, for about twenty years in Paris, but the longing for his homeland forced shortly before the death Return it. He died in Gatchina near Leningrad and was buried on the legendary "writer's bridges" in the Volkovsky cemetery. When in 1905 the “fight” appeared in the press, the name of Kuprin already became known to the entire reading Russia. The story came out with dedication to Maxim Gorky and earned the enthusiastic praise of critics and Leo Tolstoy himself. This small thing, in which the “horror and boredom of military life” is unusually shown, praises the purity and power of real feeling, the victory of the human spirit. The high act of the second lieutenant of Romashov, who died by the enemy’s hands, becomes an example of ideal love and confirms the eternal truth, which the writer spoke about in his works: love is stronger than death.