Scarlet sails: extravaganza

Alexander Stepanovich Green (1880-1932) - an outstanding Russian prose writer and poet, a representative of neuromantism. Green - the pseudonym of the writer, his real name is Grinevsky. Born in the family of the Polish gentry and a Russian nurse, in the Vyatka province. I learned to read at the age of 6, and his first favorite book - "Journey of Gulliver" Swift - determined the consciousness of the future writer: his love of the sea and fiction. Having studied at the Vyatka School, 16-year-old Grinevsky went to sailors, to Odessa, but did not find romance there and began to wander-he was a fisherman, a laborer, a lumberjack, a gold minister, a miner, a soldier, and even a surgeon -erer.
. Outsid in prison and escaping from it, in 1906, Green begins to write, during his short life he became the author of four hundred works. Already in his second collection of stories, the upcoming Green Skazchik with his unique style is noticeable. Dating with A. Tolstoy, L. Andreev, V. Bryusov, A. Kuprin have a considerable influence on him