Description of the attraction
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 bloody massacre of the rebel cruiser Ochakov.
Shocked by the incident, the writer wrote an essay "Events in Sevastopol" on November 20, in which he condemned the murder of 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 "Our Life", Kuprin, by order of the police in 1906, was forced to leave the city. But the themes of Balaklava and Sevastopol have repeatedly sounded in his stories "Listrigona", "Caterpillar", "Svetlina" and "Dream". A few months later, the writer attempted to return to Balaklava again, but he was immediately evicted from the town.
The monument to A. Kuprin was created by a talented team consisting of the architect G. Grigoryan, as well as a team of sculptors led by the famous sculptor S. A. Chizh (1935 - 2008), who became 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 Grand Hotel, erected in 1887. It was here in September 1904 that 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. There is a stack of books at the feet of the writer.
