The Garnet Bracelet (Russian: Гранатовый браслет, romanized: Granatovyi braslet) is a short novel by Alexander Kuprin, first published in Zemlya (Land) almanac, Vol.

"One of these days I'm going to send Blum[enberg] a little piece, called The Garnet Bracelet," he informed friend V.S.Klestov in a letter dated September 29.

After his wife receives for her birthday a particularly expensive gift, Prince Vasily Shein visits Zheltkov, accompanied by Nikolai Nikolayevich, Vera’s brother, and tells him to stop pestering the Princess.

Being aware that the last thread connecting him with his beloved one is gone, Zheltkov commits suicide, in the final letter asking Vera to listen to Beethoven's Second Piano Sonata.

The power of music brings about the spiritual rebirth of a hitherto detached aristocrat who recognizes that she's just been brushed by "this rarest thing, a true love that happens once in a thousand years.