Biography of Father Kuprin

Use Tab To Navigate Through The Menu Items. Coming from the poor Vygochinsky environment. His father, the writer's grandfather, was a medicine. It should be recognized that modern Cuprine science does not have information about the writer’s pedigree through the father. The grandfather of the writer is Ivan Dementievich Kuprin. In the Metric Book of the Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya Church of the city of Spassk for the city, “Tambov province of Spassk, the college registrar Ivan Dementyev Kuprin,” is mentioned as the godfather of the baby Sergey by the four I., according to the information from the official certificate, the father of the writer Ivan Ivanovich graduated from the Temnikovsky district school.

In G. Before that, on July 23, Zubovo, Narovchatsky district, now Spassky district. In total, the couple of Kuprins born six children: Sergey Rod. Of these, only girls and son Alexander, the future writer survived. From the city of Arapov, he was determined by the secretary of the United Narovchatsky-Krasnoslobodsky world congress. The same A. Arapov, in the city of the reasons for the resignation of the young man, the future father of the writer was 35 years old, poor and burdened by his family, were not clear to researchers for a long time.

The recent facts can be an explanation. In the certificate issued by I. Kuprin on April 10, the materials of the State Archive of the Penza Region testify that the college registrar I. Kuprin was under investigation with G. The case three times became the subject of consideration of the provincial rule in May and August. The case ended the intervention of the former Narovchatsky district leader of A.

Arapov by the Nizhnelom leader.

On February 17, Arapov also asked for the termination of this case. The provincial rule decided: to leave the case without consequences, and to issue a certificate “On the service without the meaning of his state under investigation in the case as a person who is finished in administrative order”. It was this certificate for the first time published by P. in the memoirs recorded by the Narovchatsky local historian M.

Afinogenova from his grandfather S. Shlykov, who lived next to the Kuprins and bought their house in the city of the investigative case, it is possible to conclude that in the writer’s narral childhood there was no atmosphere of good -natured hospitable house, invented and described by Kuprin in Kuprin in Kuprin "Junkers", "brave fugitives", etc. The reason for the neglect and crimes in the service was the alcoholism of the writer's father.

People close to the writer also mention this: F. Batyushkov, M. Ivan Ivanovich died his father was buried in the Narovchatsky cemetery, his grave was preserved in the village. Classes Penza region. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Kuprin never spoke about his father. In autobiographical works, only mother and sisters are depicted. There are objective explanations for this: the writer could not remember his father.

Only in the novel “Wheel of Time” did Kuprin remarked: “On my father, I see, good and calm Russet, like the Yaroslavl chick did not convey the stories of his mother about him. It can be assumed that these recalls were unpleasant to the writer. They did not fit into that idealistic picture of a wonderful childhood in a fairy -tale incomprehension, which he created by the power of his creative imagination.

New materials about the father of the writer I. Rab atova L. Frolov P. Kuprin and the Penza Territory. Penza Regional Library.