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| caption = Kissa Kouprine in 1937
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| birthname = Ксения Александровна Куприна
| birthname = Ксения Александровна Куприна
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|4|21}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|4|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Gatchina]], [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Imperial Russia]]
| birth_place = [[Gatchina]], [[Saint Petersburg Governorate]], [[Imperial Russia]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1981|12|8|1908|4|21}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1981|12|8|1908|4|21|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Moscow]], [[USSR]]
| death_place = [[Moscow]], [[USSR]]
| occupation = actress, model, translator, memoirist
| occupation = actress, model, translator, memoirist
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'''Ksenia Alexandrovna Kuprina''' ({{lang-ru|Ксе́ния Алекса́ндровна Куприна́}}, 21 April 1908, [[Gatchina]], [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Imperial Russia]], - 8 December 1981, [[Moscow]], [[USSR]]) was a [[French People|French]] [[model (people)|model]] and [[actress]] of [[Russians|Russian]] and [[Hungarians|Hungarian]] origins. A daughter of the [[Russian literature|Russian writer]] [[Alexander Kuprin]], she was known in [[France]] by her stage name '''Kissa Kouprine'''.
'''Ksenia Alexandrovna Kuprina''' ({{lang-ru|Ксе́ния Алекса́ндровна Куприна́}}, 21 April 1908 – 8 December 1981) was a French model and actress of Russian and Hungarian origins. A daughter of the Russian writer [[Alexander Kuprin]], she was known in France by her stage name '''Kissa Kouprine'''.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Ksenia Kuprina was born in 1908, to [[Alexander Kuprin]] and his second wife Elizaveta Geinrich (1882–1942), a daughter of the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848|Hungarian revolutionary]] [[:ru:Гейнрих, Мориц Григорьевич|Morits Rotoni-Geinrich]]. At age ten she left [[Soviet Russia]] with her parents to settle in [[Paris]]. In the mid-1920s she worked for a [[Paul Poiret]] agency, then embarked upon the career in films. Kissa Kouprine, as by then she has been known, appeared in eleven films, starting with ''Le Diable au cœur'' (1927, with [[Betty Balfour]]) by [[Marcel L'Herbier]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468022/|title= Kissa Kouprine (1908–1981) |publisher=[[IMDb]]|accessdate=2014-06-16}}</ref> It was followed by Herbier's adaptations of [[Gaston Leroux]]'s ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (1930 film)|fr|3=Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (film, 1930)|lt=Le Mystère de la chambre jaune}}'' (1930) and ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Le Parfum de la dame en noir (1931 film)|fr|3=Le Parfum de la dame en noir (film, 1931)|lt=Le Parfum de la dame en noir}}'' (1931), as well as ''[[L'Aventurier (film)|L'Aventurier]]'' (1934) and ''[[La Route impériale]]'' (1935). She appeared in three films by [[:fr:Jacques de Casembroot|Jacques de Casembroot]] and, finally, [[Jacques Deval]]'s comedy ''[[Women's Club (1936 film)|Women's Club]]'' (1936), with [[Danielle Darrieux]], which proved to be her final appearance on screen in France. By this time Kouprine was rich enough to settle at [[Champs-Élysées]]. In the 1930s she was romantically involved with [[Jean Marais]], and became friends with the yet unknown singer, [[Edith Piaf]], on whom she would later write a book in Russian.<ref name="obolensky"/>
Ksenia Kuprina was born in 1908, to [[Alexander Kuprin]] and his second wife Elizaveta Geinrich (1882–1942), a daughter of the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848|Hungarian revolutionary]] [[:ru:Гейнрих, Мориц Григорьевич|Morits Rotoni-Geinrich]]. At age ten she left [[Soviet Russia]] with her parents to settle in [[Paris]]. In the mid-1920s she worked for a [[Paul Poiret]] agency, then embarked upon the career in films. Kissa Kouprine, as by then she has been known, appeared in eleven films, starting with ''Le Diable au cœur'' (1927, with [[Betty Balfour]]) by [[Marcel L'Herbier]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468022/|title= Kissa Kouprine (1908–1981) |publisher=[[IMDb]]|accessdate=2014-06-16}}</ref> It was followed by Herbier's adaptations of [[Gaston Leroux]]'s ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (1930 film)|fr|3=Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (film, 1930)|lt=Le Mystère de la chambre jaune}}'' (1930) and ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Le Parfum de la dame en noir (1931 film)|fr|3=Le Parfum de la dame en noir (film, 1931)|lt=Le Parfum de la dame en noir}}'' (1931), as well as ''[[L'Aventurier (film)|L'Aventurier]]'' (1934) and ''[[La Route impériale]]'' (1935). She appeared in three films by [[:fr:Jacques de Casembroot|Jacques de Casembroot]] and, finally, [[Jacques Deval]]'s comedy ''[[Women's Club (1936 film)|Women's Club]]'' (1936), with [[Danielle Darrieux]], which proved to be her final appearance on screen in France. By this time Kouprine was rich enough to settle at [[Champs-Élysées]]. In the 1930s she was romantically involved with [[Jean Marais]], and became friends with the yet unknown singer, [[Edith Piaf]], on whom she would later write a book in Russian.<ref name="obolensky"/>


In 1958 Kuprina returned to the [[USSR]] where she worked as [[stage actress]], [[scriptwriter]], [[translator]] and later [[memoirist]], who had massive success with her book ''Kuprin Is My Father'' (Куприн - мой отец, 1971). Two films about Ksenia Kuprina came out in the USSR: ''There Is No Life for Me Without Russia'' (Мне нельзя без России, directed by Alexander Proshkin) and ''Ksenia Kuprina Speaks'' (Ксения Куприна рассказывает, Y.Reshetnikova and O. Dosik).<ref name="yatmanov">{{cite web|url=http://gg12.ru/node/16932|title=I Am Greateful for You Love form My father // Спасибо за любовь к моему отцу|author=Yatmanov, Lev|date=2013|publisher="Йошкар-Ола" (newspaper)|accessdate=2014-06-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129043311/http://gg12.ru/node/16932|archive-date=2014-11-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> For all that, Ksenia Kuprina's life in Russia was marred by disappointments and humiliations. She hasn't received a dime from all the re-issues of her famous father's books, had been refused an audience by the [[Khrushchev]] government's Minister of Culture [[Ekaterina Furtseva]], never got a decent part at the [[Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre]] ("Here I am anonymous actress," she once remarked)<ref name="yatmanov"/> and for many years had to rely on her 100-ruble pension, according to the biographer Vladimir Obolensky.<ref name="obolensky">{{cite web|url=http://kornetobolensky.ru/kseniya-kuprina-v-moey-zhizni/|title=Ксения Куприна в моей жизни / Ksenia Kuprina in My Life |author=Obolensky, Vladimir|date= 2012 |publisher= Владимир Оболенский. Официальный сайт|accessdate=2014-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://penza.rfn.ru/rnews.html?id=14099|title= Ксения Куприна: русская красавица с драматичной судьбой |date=2008|publisher=ГТРК Пенза / The Penza State Television|accessdate=2014-06-17}}</ref>
In 1958 Kuprina returned to the [[USSR]]{{why?|date=December 2022}} where she worked as [[stage actress]], [[scriptwriter]], [[translator]] and later [[memoirist]], who had massive success with her book ''Kuprin Is My Father'' (Куприн - мой отец, 1971). Two films about Ksenia Kuprina came out in the USSR: ''There Is No Life for Me Without Russia'' (Мне нельзя без России, directed by [[Alexander Proshkin]]) and ''Ksenia Kuprina Speaks'' (Ксения Куприна рассказывает, Y.Reshetnikova and O. Dosik).<ref name="yatmanov">{{cite web|url=http://gg12.ru/node/16932|title=I Am Greateful for You Love form My father // Спасибо за любовь к моему отцу|author=Yatmanov, Lev|date=2013|publisher="Йошкар-Ола" (newspaper)|accessdate=2014-06-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129043311/http://gg12.ru/node/16932|archive-date=2014-11-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> For all that, Ksenia Kuprina's life in Russia was marred by disappointments and humiliations. She did not receive a dime from all the re-issues of her famous father's books, was refused an audience by the [[Khrushchev]] government's Minister of Culture [[Ekaterina Furtseva]], never got a decent part at the [[Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre]] ("Here I am anonymous actress," she once remarked)<ref name="yatmanov"/> and for many years had to rely on her 100-ruble pension, according to the biographer [[Vladimir Obolensky]].<ref name="obolensky">{{cite web|url=http://kornetobolensky.ru/kseniya-kuprina-v-moey-zhizni/|title=Ксения Куприна в моей жизни / Ksenia Kuprina in My Life |author=Obolensky, Vladimir|date= 2012 |publisher= Владимир Оболенский. Официальный сайт|accessdate=2014-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://penza.rfn.ru/rnews.html?id=14099|title=Ксения Куприна: русская красавица с драматичной судьбой|date=2008|publisher=ГТРК Пенза / The Penza State Television|accessdate=2014-06-17|archive-date=2014-11-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129051008/http://penza.rfn.ru/rnews.html?id=14099|url-status=dead}}</ref>


Ksenia Kuprina's main concern in her later years was the Alexander Kuprin Museum in Narovchat that she had been instrumental in creating. She died in 1981 of [[brain tumor]] and was interred in [[Volkovskoye Cemetery]] in [[Saint Petersburg]].<ref>[http://volkovka.ru/nekropol/view/item/id/667/catid/4 Могила К. А. Куприной на Волковском кладбище] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133401/http://volkovka.ru/nekropol/view/item/id/667/catid/4 |date=2016-03-04 }}. K.A. Kuprina's grave at the Volkovskoye Cemetery</ref>
Ksenia Kuprina's main concern in her later years was the Alexander Kuprin Museum in Narovchat that she had been instrumental in creating. She died in 1981 of [[brain tumor]] and was interred in [[Volkovskoye Cemetery]] in [[Saint Petersburg]].<ref>[http://volkovka.ru/nekropol/view/item/id/667/catid/4 Могила К. А. Куприной на Волковском кладбище] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133401/http://volkovka.ru/nekropol/view/item/id/667/catid/4 |date=2016-03-04 }}. K.A. Kuprina's grave at the Volkovskoye Cemetery</ref>
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* ''[[The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930 film)|The Mystery of the Yellow Room]]'' (1930)
* ''[[The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930 film)|The Mystery of the Yellow Room]]'' (1930)
* ''[[The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1931 film)|The Perfume of the Lady in Black]]'' (1931)
* ''[[The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1931 film)|The Perfume of the Lady in Black]]'' (1931)
* ''[[The Last Night (1934 film)|The Last Night]]'' (1934)
* ''[[The Adventurer (1934 film)|The Adventurer]]'' (1934)


== References ==
== References ==
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[[Category:Soviet writers]]
[[Category:Soviet writers]]
[[Category:People from Saint Petersburg]]
[[Category:Female models from Saint Petersburg]]
[[Category:Russian models]]
[[Category:Russian expatriates in France]]
[[Category:Russian expatriates in France]]
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Latest revision as of 02:25, 1 March 2024

Ksenia Kuprina
Kissa Kouprine in 1937
Born
Ксения Александровна Куприна

(1908-04-21)21 April 1908
Gatchina, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Imperial Russia
Died8 December 1981(1981-12-08) (aged 73)
Moscow, USSR
Occupation(s)actress, model, translator, memoirist

Ksenia Alexandrovna Kuprina (Russian: Ксе́ния Алекса́ндровна Куприна́, 21 April 1908 – 8 December 1981) was a French model and actress of Russian and Hungarian origins. A daughter of the Russian writer Alexander Kuprin, she was known in France by her stage name Kissa Kouprine.

Biography

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Ksenia Kuprina was born in 1908, to Alexander Kuprin and his second wife Elizaveta Geinrich (1882–1942), a daughter of the Hungarian revolutionary Morits Rotoni-Geinrich. At age ten she left Soviet Russia with her parents to settle in Paris. In the mid-1920s she worked for a Paul Poiret agency, then embarked upon the career in films. Kissa Kouprine, as by then she has been known, appeared in eleven films, starting with Le Diable au cœur (1927, with Betty Balfour) by Marcel L'Herbier.[1] It was followed by Herbier's adaptations of Gaston Leroux's Le Mystère de la chambre jaune [fr] (1930) and Le Parfum de la dame en noir [fr] (1931), as well as L'Aventurier (1934) and La Route impériale (1935). She appeared in three films by Jacques de Casembroot and, finally, Jacques Deval's comedy Women's Club (1936), with Danielle Darrieux, which proved to be her final appearance on screen in France. By this time Kouprine was rich enough to settle at Champs-Élysées. In the 1930s she was romantically involved with Jean Marais, and became friends with the yet unknown singer, Edith Piaf, on whom she would later write a book in Russian.[2]

In 1958 Kuprina returned to the USSR[why?] where she worked as stage actress, scriptwriter, translator and later memoirist, who had massive success with her book Kuprin Is My Father (Куприн - мой отец, 1971). Two films about Ksenia Kuprina came out in the USSR: There Is No Life for Me Without Russia (Мне нельзя без России, directed by Alexander Proshkin) and Ksenia Kuprina Speaks (Ксения Куприна рассказывает, Y.Reshetnikova and O. Dosik).[3] For all that, Ksenia Kuprina's life in Russia was marred by disappointments and humiliations. She did not receive a dime from all the re-issues of her famous father's books, was refused an audience by the Khrushchev government's Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, never got a decent part at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre ("Here I am anonymous actress," she once remarked)[3] and for many years had to rely on her 100-ruble pension, according to the biographer Vladimir Obolensky.[2][4]

Ksenia Kuprina's main concern in her later years was the Alexander Kuprin Museum in Narovchat that she had been instrumental in creating. She died in 1981 of brain tumor and was interred in Volkovskoye Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.[5]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "Kissa Kouprine (1908–1981)". IMDb. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  2. ^ a b Obolensky, Vladimir (2012). "Ксения Куприна в моей жизни / Ksenia Kuprina in My Life". Владимир Оболенский. Официальный сайт. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
  3. ^ a b Yatmanov, Lev (2013). "I Am Greateful for You Love form My father // Спасибо за любовь к моему отцу". "Йошкар-Ола" (newspaper). Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  4. ^ "Ксения Куприна: русская красавица с драматичной судьбой". ГТРК Пенза / The Penza State Television. 2008. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  5. ^ Могила К. А. Куприной на Волковском кладбище Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. K.A. Kuprina's grave at the Volkovskoye Cemetery
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