Monument to A. Kuprin description and photo - Crimea: Balaklava (Topic)

Monument to A. Kuprin description and photo - Crimea: Balaklava. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The monument to A. Kuprin in Balaklava was erected on the city embankment in 2009. The Russian writer lived in this city from 1904 to 1906. At that time, Kuprin worked fruitfully, writing an essay “ In Memory of Chekhov "and the first chapters of" The Duel ". A year later, the writer became a member of a fishing artel. In 1905, Kuprin witnessed the revolutionary events that took place in the Black Sea Fleet, as well as the massacre of the rebel cruiser Ochakov.

Shocked by the incident, the writer wrote an essay on November 20, "Events in Sevastopol," in which he condemned the murder hundreds of innocent people, the shooting and burning of a warship, blaming all these deaths on Admiral Chukhnin, who at that time was in command of the fleet. For the material "Events in Sevastopol", published in the St. Petersburg newspaper "Nasha Zhizn", Kuprin, by order of the police in 1906, was forced to leave the city. But the themes of Balaklava and Sevastopol were repeatedly sounded in his stories "Listrigona", "Caterpillar", "Svetlina" and "Dream". A few months later, the writer made an attempt to return to Balaklava, but he was immediately evicted from the town.

The monument to A. Kuprin was created by a talented team of architect G. Grigoryan, as well as a team of sculptors led by a famous sculptor S. A. Chizh (1935 - 2008), famous for his monument to Catherine II in Sevastopol. The idea to erect a monument without a pedestal right on the embankment belongs to S. Chizh. Behind the bronze A.I. Kuprin, a little to the left is the building of the former hotel "Grand Hotel", erected in 1887. It was here in September 1904. the writer stayed with his wife during their first visit to Balaklava.
With a cane and a hat, leaning at ease on the forged openwork lattice of the Balaklava embankment, Kuprin, according to the creators' plan, turned his gaze to where his beloved city was comfortably located on the hills. A stack of books stands at the feet of the writer.

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