Alexander Grin

24 hrs. 38 min.

Author Alexey Varlamov

Narrator Nikolay Savitskiy

Description

The name of Alexander Grin—the creator of an entire world called Grinlandia—is known to everyone today, though the work of this extraordinary writer is well known only to a few. His fantastic heroes—able to fly, to walk on waves, to dream, and to see their dreams come true—always captivated readers and, in any circumstances, gave them hope. But in his works, as in his life, there was also a longing for the Unfulfilled. He did not become a sailor—yet he became an SR (Socialist-Revolutionary); he came into close contact with those who planned and carried out terrorist acts. He was never recognized among writers, many of whom didn’t take his work seriously. He lived not merely in poverty, but in destitution, and knew how to make do with little. In any era he was a man out of his time, and left behind the most contradictory memories among those who knew him.

But his life was warmed by selfless love from Nina Nikolaevna Grin, his second wife— largely thanks to whose efforts today we can imagine what kind of person the creator of “Scarlet Sails” and “The Runaway on Waves” was. The author of the book, the well-known writer and literary scholar Aleksey Varlamov, based on published and archival documents, managed to create an amazingly vivid and integral portrait of this extraordinary person and to present his work in a very interesting and detailed way.