White poodle
In 1890, having graduated from a military school, Kuprin was enrolled in the Infantry Regiment in the rank of lieutenant, and in 1894 he retired and moved to Kyiv. In the following years, he wandered a lot in Russia and his impressions formed the basis of future works. Kuprin was familiar with Bunin, Chekhov, Gorky. In 1901 he moved to St. Petersburg, began working as a secretary of the "magazine for all". After the October Revolution, the writer did not accept the new system and emigrated abroad in the fall of 1919.
In 1937, Kuprin was returning to Russia, but the meeting with his homeland was short -lived, in 1938 Alexander Ivanovich died in Leningrad.
Kuprin wrote many stories about animals, their character, habits. In his lifetime, he tinned with them - trained, treated, saved. All four -legged heroes of his stories actually lived, even the events described in the story "Elephant Walk". Once upon a time there was a white poodle and Kuprin’s favorite dog - Sapsan, which you will also read about in this book