Alexander Grin
Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky , August 23, 1880 July 8, 1932 was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor . Most of his writings deal with sea, adventures, and love.
Aleksandr Grin was born Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky in a suburb of Vyatka in 1880, the son of the Pole Stefan Hryniewski, deported after the January Uprising of 1863. In 1896, after graduating from a school in Vyatka, Grinevsky went to Odessa and lived the life of a vagabond. He worked as a sailor, gold miner, construction worker, but often found himself without a job and sustained himself by begging and thanks to money sent to him by his father.
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