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Olesya (Kuprin)
''Olesya'' is a novelette by Alexander Kuprin written in late 1897 - early 1898 and serialized in ''Kievlyanin'' newspaper in October 30 - November 17, 1898. ''Olesya'', the most acclaimed piece of his Polesye cycle, did much to build Kuprin's literary reputation and warranted his move to Saint Petersburg.〔Pitlyar, I. Notes and commentaries. The Works of A.I.Kuprin in 9 volumes. Pravda Publishers. The Ogonyok Library. Moscow, 1964. Vol.2, pp. 479-494〕
According to scholar Nicholas Liker, "Olesya is the most charming of Kuprin's rural tales. Though meant at first to be only part of the Volhynia and Polesye cycle, this poetic story of the love between an urban intellectual and a beautiful country girl expanded into a full novelette of a significance far surpassing that of the other regional tales." The story was one of Kuprin's favorites. Referring once to both ''Olesya'' and his later work "The River of Life," he said: "There is life in it and freshness and... more of my soul than in my other tales."〔Kiselyov, B.M. Speaking of Kuprin // Rasskazy о Kuprine. Moscow, 1964, p. 175.〕
==Background==
The year 1897 took Kuprin first to Volhynia Province in the northwest Ukraine, where he worked as an estate manager, and then to the Polesye area in southern Belarus. In the winter of 1897-1898 he moved to Ryazan Province, where Olesya was written. Kuprin considered several months spent in Volhynia and Polesye to be most beneficial of his life.〔 "There I absorbed my most vigorous, noble, extensive, and fruitful impressions... and came to know the Russian language and landscape," he remembered.〔
The story is autobiographical. "All this happened to me," Kuprin wrote mysteriously toward the end of his life.〔Afanasyev, V.N. Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin. Moscow, 1960, p. 43〕
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