The famous playwright and writer Alexander Kuprin did not immediately find his true vocation. Life shook him considerably before he decided to become a writer, but the life experience he had gained helped him in many ways and served as the basis for many of his works. This is partly why the literature that came out from under his pen seems so alive and real.
For his first story, written while serving in the army, the future writer received a two-day punishment cell. Then he decided never to write anything else, but life put everything in its place. Talent Kuprina revealed Ivan Bunin, who helped him with publications. During his life, Alexander Kuprin replaced more than twenty professions, and he was guided not by financial considerations, but by interest – he wanted to get a new experience. He even managed to be a thief and a horse thief.
Kuprin’s sense of smell was so sensitive that he could recognize all the components of the spirits, which led to the amazement of the perfumers. The writer had a strange habit of doggy sniffing people. Alexander Kuprin wrote his works slowly and lazily, without going anywhere. Because of this, he repeatedly had conflicts with his wife, who pounded him and threatened to kick him out of the house.
Because of conflicts with his wife, the writer began to drink a lot. About his extravagant drunk antics all the newspapers of those years wrote. He was saved from alcohol dependence by a nanny of his daughter, who managed to convince him to go to Finland for treatment. In Sevastopol, Kuprin took part in the uprising of sailors, hiding ten people from the crew of the rebellious cruiser. And to distract the attention of the police from pretending to be drunk and burst into the police station. The writer made friends with Ivan Bunin and Anton Chekhov. Fyodor Shalyapin called Alexander Kuprin “the most sensitive nose of Russia,” hinting at his unsurpassed sense of smell.
