"On a Moonlit Night" (Лунной ночью, Lunnoi noch'iu) is a short story by Alexander Kuprin originally published in Russkoye Bogatstvo magazine's November, 1893, issue.
In 1911, unchanged, it appeared in Probuzhdeniye (Awakening) magazine (April 8 and 15), under the title Na perekryostke (На перекрёстке, At the Crossroads).
[1] Written in the years of Kuprin's military service, it was his third published work, following "The Psyche", to which "On a Moonlit Night" is similar in theme and mood.
[2][3] According to the Kupin scholar Nicholas Luker, "[p]robing the innermost recesses of the mind, Kuprin explores in his protagonist Gamov the Dostoevskian duality fundamental to the human soul.
When this second will is in chaos, Gamov explains, otherwise unthinkable acts of violence occur, like the brutal murder of his beloved, to which he tacitly confesses.