"The duel" written during time of the Russian-Japanese war A.I.Kuprin"s story "The duel" opens the painful problems which have ripened in the russian military environment. The main character of the story, officer Romashov (with which the writer identified itself) enters struggle against lie, injustice, violation of human advantage. This struggle appears for it fatal, but in its destruction the hope of possibility of changes is covered. The deep psychological analysis acquired by Kuprin from Tolstoy, the passionate relation of the writer to the problem put to it, brilliant style do "The duel" so interesting to us, as well as for Kuprin"s contemporaries.