Boris Vasilyevich Cheprunov is a Russian writer from Uzbekistan, he is best known for his novels "Junaidkhan" and "Golden Web". B. V. Cheprunov (1890-1937) was born in 1890 in Novy Urgench. B. V. Cheprunov developed Khiva themes in his work. The writer is the originator of this topic at the beginning of the 20th century, because he lived and grew up in Khiva, knew the people of Khiva closely, was educated by local mullahs, knew Uzbek, Turkmen and Karakalpak languages. The novel "The Golden Web" occupies a special place in the work of B. Cheprunov. Here we have the theme of the process of turnover of Russian capital in the economy of the Khanate of Khiva in the late XIX — early XX centuries. The central character of the novel "The Golden Web" is Grigory Lyamin. There is also autobiography in the novel. However, it cannot be said that the book is saturated only with the facts of biography. Here we are talking about bankers, merchants, and the history of the city of Urgench at the beginning of the 20th century. B.V. Cheprunov does not forget to depict ancient Khiva: he talks about the Silk Road, trade caravans, and hordes of conquerors — Cyrus the Persian, Alexander the Great, and Genghis Khan. Cheprunov has his own style, and together with the writer, the reader finds himself either at a banker's in the city, or in a village among dehkans, or in a merchant's house in the city, or in the bosom of nature at a democrat's. One of the obvious advantages of B. Cheprunov's novel is the wealth of ethnographic and factual material that creates the impression of completeness and integrity of reproducing an era far from us in the first decades of the 20th century. B.V. Cheprunov passed away early. His death was a heavy loss for the Russian prose of Uzbekistan. He was denounced as an Uzbek nationalist. However, he was not a nationalist, neither Uzbek nor Russian. He loved his native Khorezm. On October 2, 1957, Cheprunov was posthumously rehabilitated.