Elephant: Stories. Kuprin A.I.

The famous Russian writer Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin was born in 1870. His father died early, and his mother was forced to give children to closed educational institutions to the official account.

Little Sasha first fell into a shelter for children-hollow, then to the cadet corps and, finally, to the Junker School. His childhood and youth passed without parental care and family comfort.

Kuprin began to write early. He treated his work very seriously, worked hard and hard. In order to learn more about life and write more about it, he traveled a lot, changed several professions: he was a fisherman, an actor, a loader, a singer, a surveyor.

Kuprin really loved animals, knew their characters and habits, trained , treated. He wrote a lot of stories about dogs, cats, monkeys, elephants, birds.

In the story “Elephant” the dream of a sick girl comes true: an elephant comes to visit her, and they become good friends.

for primary school age.