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Alexander Kuprin belongs to the group of social writers at turn of 19th century, who brought up aspects arising from contacts with different cultures, religions and languages on ethnically heterogeneous territory of the Russia. The author of The Duel eagerly used short prose forms, which he enriched with environmental and ethnographic reality, picturing mentality, customs and social problems, also religious and culture differences of other than Russian ethnic groups. In his work we can fi nd portrayals of Crimean Tatars and Greeks, Poles, Polishchuks, Ukraininas, Circassians, Georgians, Armenians, and Jews.