Kuprin
Americannoun
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Ukraine says the ship's captain, Anton Kuprin, was killed on board, but the BBC has been unable to verify the claim.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2022
A top Ukrainian official Friday also said that Anton Kuprin, the commander of the flagship vessel and of the naval deployment off Ukraine’s southern coast, was among those who died in the incident.
From Washington Times • Apr. 15, 2022
You could argue that from time to time, he praises Maupassant, or Kuprin, or Semenov, or myself.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2011
What begins as a mere reunion turns, at the behest of the U.S. embassy, into an appeal to Scientist Kuprin to escape to America.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In Russia, his public was second in numbers only to Tolstoi's; Kuprin and Andreev both dedicated books to him; in Germany, France, England, and America, he became literally a household word.
From Essays on Russian Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
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