Grin A.S. (1880-1932), writer

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GRIN (real name Grinevsky) Alexander Stepanovich (1880-1932), writer. For the first time came to St. Petersburg either in 1905 or in 1906 illegally, drifted together with A. I. Kuprin, who introduced him into literary circles. Grin"s first collection of short stories, Magic Hat, was published in 1908. In 1910 he was arrested as a member of Socialist Revolutionary Party and exiled to Arkhangelskaya Province. After his return to St. Petersburg in 1912, he contributed to many periodicals; by 1917 he had published over 350 short stories, poems, satirical miniatures, written in traditions of the 19th century romantic and adventure stories of Western European fiction. In 1924 he moved to Feodosia, in 1930 - to Stary Krym (Old Crimea). In the 1920s Grin wrote the works that made him famous: the fairy tale story Scarlet Sails (1923), novels The Shining World (1924), The Golden Chain (1925), She Who Runs on the Waves (1928), Jessie and Morgiana (1929), whose characters live in the world, where dreams and reality are interlaced, and miracles are just a part of reality. In the 1900s he lived at 44 Eleventh Line of Vasilievsky Island, 25 Universitetskaya Embankment; in the early 1920s - in the House of Arts, then at 11 Pestel" Street.

References: Михайлова Л. Александр Грин: Жизнь, личность, творчество. 2-е изд., дораб. и доп. М., 1980.

M. V. Zakharova. Grin Alexander Stepanovich
Kuprin Alexander Ivanovich
11th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 44
Dekabristov St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 11
Universitetskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 25
Михайлова Л. Александр Грин: Жизнь, личность, творчество. 2-е изд., дораб. и доп. М., 1980 Arts, The House of, literary society