KUPRIN ALEXANDER (1870-1938), AUTOGRAPH A handwritten note on a postcard addressed to Tatiana Alexinskaya. Paris, 1921.

8.5x13 cm. Fold mark. "Vot adres doma, gde Vas pomnyat, / lyubyat i zhdyut / Sevres ville d’Avray / 5, rue Riocreux. Tel. Sevres 0-48 / Vash Kuprin." ["Here is the address of the house where you are remembered, loved, and awaited: Sevres ville d’Avray, 5, rue Riocreux. Tel. Sevres 0-48. Yours, Kuprin."] Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was a Russian realist writer who gained national acclaim. He was encouraged by the February Revolution of 1917. After the October Revolution, he tried to work with the Bolsheviks, but did not accept their views and joined the White Movement. In Yudenich's North-West Army he was engaged in editorial work in the newspaper "Prinevsky Krai". After the defeat of the army he left first to Finland in 1919 and then to France in 1920. In 1937, Kuprin returned to his homeland at the invitation of the USSR government. Tatiana Ivanovna Alexinskaya (née Evtikhieva; 1886-1968) was a Russian public figure, historian, publicist, and memoirist. In 1931, she founded the Union of Russian Sisters of Mercy, participants in the Great War of 1914-1918, in Paris, named after Baroness Vrevskaya. Provenance: Archive of G.A. Alexinsky. Grigory Alexeyevich Alexinsky (1879-1967) was a Russian revolutionary, social democrat, and Bolshevik (1905-1908). In 1917, he fought against Bolshevism. From 1919, he was in emigration and served as the chairman of the Russian Council in Paris. He collaborated in the newspapers "Obshchee delo" and "Russkaya gazeta."