Alexander Grin

Alexander Grin (Russian Александр Грин, actually Alexander Stepanovich Grinewski ( Александр Степанович Гриневский ) * 11 Augustjul / August 23 1880greg in Slobodskoi, .. † July 8, 1932 in Stary Krym ) was a Russian writer.

Life

Under the name Alexander Stepanovich Grinewski born, he was the son of an exiled participant of the Polish uprising of 1863. He completed his schooling in 1896 from Vyatka, then went to Odessa and began a life as a vagabond. It was reflected in the wide range of professions through life, including panning for gold in the Urals, as a sailor and fisherman. Often, however, he was out of work and had to go begging. He received a little financial help from his father.

After he had volunteered for service in the Russian army, he was during his military service member in the then illegal Social Revolutionary Party. His agitation activity brought him into prison. During this time he began to write short stories, one of which was first published in 1906 in a newspaper. In the same year he was again arrested in St. Petersburg and exiled for a period of four years in the region around Tobolsk. Since it was relatively easy to tsarist times to escape from exile, Grin went unceremoniously back to Saint Petersburg and was living there illegally. He was arrested again in 1910 and exiled in the administrative district of Arkhangelsk. He lived there in a small village called Kegostrow and married his first wife, Vera Pavlovna Abramova. In 1912 he returned to St. Petersburg and divorced from his wife. During this time, Grin published mainly short stories.

The main part of his major works was written by him after the October Revolution. He was a popular writer in Soviet Russia or the Soviet Union during the first half of the twenties. In 1921 he married his second wife, Nina Nikolaevna Grin. From 1924, he lived with her ​​in Feodosiya on the Black Sea. He came into conflict with the party due to the content of his novels. This meant that his manuscripts were not accepted by publishers and he had to live with his wife in poverty. He suffered from alcoholism and tuberculosis. In 1930 he moved to Stary Krym, where he died in 1932 of stomach cancer.

His work enjoys today great popularity in Russia. His works are fantastic and fairy-tale to the absurd, the latter being particularly true of his short stories. Remarkable are his dulcet - associative fictitious people and place names.

His story Scarlet Sails was filmed in 1961 by Mosfilm (see The purple sail ). The Yugoslav feature film " The Rat God " is based on Grins novel " The Pied Piper ".

Works

• Scarlet Sails ( Алые паруса, novel, 1923; German and purple sails, Red Sails, The Scarlet sails )
• The sparkling world ( Блистающий мир, novel, 1923)
• The Pied Piper ( Крысолов, short stories, 1924)
• The golden chain ( Золотая цепь, novel, 1925)
• Waves slider ( Бегущая по волнам, novel, 1928)
• Jessy and Morgiana ( Джесси и Моргиана, novel, 1929)