• Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky (better known by his pen name, Aleksander Green / Grin (spelling varies in non-Russian literature), Russian: Александр Грин...
  • Alexander Grin lived at Dekabristov 11 in St. Petersburg in 1921-22 while he was finishing the Scarlet Sails which he started back in 1916.
  • Alexander Stephanovich Grinevsky was born on August 23, 1880, Vyatka province, Russian Empire.
  • and interests suggest an imaginative engagement with the perplexing case of Aleksandr Grin (born Aleksandr Grinevskii, 1880-1932).
  • least once, leading to his founding of a City on a vast Island that Grin's readers, following a 1934 suggestion by the critic Korneliy Zelinsky...
  • Alexander Grin was born on 23 August 1880 in Slobodskoy, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kirov Oblast, Russia].
  • The son of an exiled Pole, Grin spent a childhood of misery and poverty in a northern provincial town.
  • In 1896 at age 16, Grin finished a four-year Vyatka college and left for Odessa.