Kuprin biography wife
Use Tab To Navigate Through The Menu Items. Leningrad is the second wife of Kuprin. Her father - Hungarly settled in Russia Moritz Gainrich Rotoni? Elizaveta Moritzovna was the last, twelfth, child in the family. At this time, her father had a photo studio in Perm. From the age of eight, Elizaveta Moritsevna was brought up in the family of the eldest sister Maria Moritsevna, in the marriage of Abramova, a talented actress.
Maria Moritzovna, being a civil wife of the writer D. Mamina-Sibiryak, died during the birth of her daughter Elena. Davydova, publisher of the magazine "World of God". Lisa was brought up with the adopted daughter of Davydov Masha, the future wife of Kuprin. Gouval; From Davydova, to care for his daughter Alyonushka. Lisa’s childhood was heavy, as the Huval kept her in the position of a snake living out of mercy.
The girl ran away from home several times. In G. in February, she was in Harbin, Mukden, looked after the wounded and typhoid sick. In the beginning of the city, shortly after returning from the war, her first meeting with Kuprin, then already married to M., took place from the war Mikhailovsky. Elizabeth was invited to Bonnoy to the daughter of the Kuprins Lydia. In the summer of G. Batyushkova, where the Kuprins spent the summer, the novel of Elizabeth Moritsevna and Kuprin began.
The relations between the Kuprin spouses by that time were on the verge of a gap. Kuprin left Maria Karlovna and washed down. Batyushkov, a close friend of Kuprin, persuaded Elizabeth Moritsev to save the writer. Kuprin and Elizaveta Moritzovna left for Helsingfors for his treatment. Since that time, they began to be considered a husband and wife a civil marriage. Many familiar and closest relatives of the writer condemned him.
Relatives believed that Elizaveta Moritzovna committed an immoral act, going with a married man, and also “repelled her husband from Musi” and “wants to take away the child”, since Kuprin insisted that his daughter live with them from her first marriage. On the other hand, many acquaintances of the writer already considered Kuprin a “dead man” at that time, an alcoholic and spared a young girl.
According to the memoirs of contemporaries, in particular the memoirs of the acquaintance of Kuprin A. Tirkova-Vielms “Shadows of the Past”, Lisa became Kuprin “the closest person in the world, his pestyunya and healer. He could no longer drink at all; But from a continuous, wild drunkenness, she took him away. Kuprin could write again, he began to live humanly. " Elizaveta Moritzovna and Kuprin were married on August 16, in the village.
Gumenik near Zhytomyr, after receiving an official divorce from Maria Karlovna. Then the christening of Ksenia took place.
The second child - the daughter of Zinaida - was born prematurely on October 6, she died in Gatchina at the beginning of the city, according to the writer himself, she was a complete idiot, did not respond either to light or noise. Kuprin blamed his free drunkenness in this. After a few difficult years of wandering in different cities and other people's corners of Kuprina in the city, the whole life of Elizabeth Moritsevna was dedicated to Kuprin.
At the time of the literary glory of Kuprin, they lived in a wide foot, with regular guests and acquaintances who could remain in the house for a long time. There were always not enough funds in the family. The indefatigable interest in life and in people pushed the writer to participate in many adventures and adventures of a balloon, on an airplane, a descent under the water in a diving suit, arrest in the city of During the First World War, Elizaveta Moritzovna became a sister of mercy in a home hospital.
In exile, all the concerns for the life of the family, about the upbringing and training of Ksenia, fell on the shoulders of Elizabeth Moritsevna. She conducted Kuprin's publishing affairs, business negotiations with newspaper editors, rewrote his manuscripts, which has confirmation in the writer's letters. In exile, Elizaveta Moritzovna was looking for all kinds of means to maintain a family: she opened a bookbinding workshop, a library, a bookstore.
I took care of the health of Kuprin, who in the middle of the xg. Her responsiveness appreciated M. Letters to E. Kuprina were addressed: I. Bunin, B. Zaitsev, D. Merezhkovsky, A. Remizov, M. Aldanov, N. Taffy, I. Surguchev and others. Having returned to Russia, she was inseparably under Kuprin as a nanny and a nurse. Ksenia, who remained in France, wrote encouraging, caring letters, spoke in detail about her father’s health.
After the death of Kuprin, the widow lived in Leningrad, in an apartment provided by the writer on Lesnoy Prospekt along with Alexei Egorov, the grandson of Kuprin from the first daughter of Lydia. In the apartment she made a small museum of the writer, conducted publishing affairs. She worked on memories of Kuprin. Elizaveta Moritzovna is buried next to Kuprin in a Volkov cemetery.
The writer dedicated her the story “The Garden of the Blessed Virgin” Literature: Rab at L. Project and Ch. Unpublished letters of D.