"Scarlet Sails" by Alexander Green

[A ship with scarlet sails is a mascot for the "Scarlet Sails" celebrations in Saint Petersburg named after Alexander Grin's novel](By Marina Lystseva - http://album.foto.ru/photo/138312/#photo, GFDL 1.2, Link)

"She still sometimes asked her father:" Tell me why they do not like us? " "Oh, Assol," Longren said, "do they know how to love? You must be able to love, but they can not do this." - "How is it - to be able?" - "And like this!" He took the girl in his arms and kissed his sad eyes, which were frowning with tender pleasure. "

August 23, 2018 marked the 138th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Stepanovich Grinevsky, known to us under the pseudonym Alexander Green.

By his own will, Alexander Grinevsky signed up as a soldier in an infantry military. In 1902, his battalion was quartered in Penza. Six months later the service deserted, was caught, again fled. Having become acquainted with the SR propagandists who helped him escape, Grinevsky gives all his energy and energy to the struggle with the existing system, but he refuses to take part in the terrorist attacks.
From 1906 began a literary career, when Alexander Greene wrote his first story "The Merit of Private Panteleyev," which described the army's "lawlessness" against the peasants. The story from afar as a propaganda brochure for punitive soldiers.
And already in 1908 the first collection of short stories "The Invisible Hat" was published with the subtitle "Stories about the Revolutionaries". In 1910 the second collection is published and his name becomes known.
However, in the summer of 1910 the police "figured out" that the popular writer A. Greene and the fugitive exile Grinevsky were one and the same person. Naturally, he was followed by his arrest and exile in Pinega, Arkhangelsk region. Here is the fate of the remarkable writer Alexandra Gnin.
Soon there was a revolution, which first the writer gave birth to a hope for a happy future, and then gradually he became disillusioned with revolutionary activity. We all make mistakes or go in the wrong way. You will not pass, you will not know.
Then Alexandre Green lived as a hermit in Petersburg and practically did not communicate with anyone. It was here that he wrote in 1920 his novel "Scarlet Sails", which was published in 1920goduyu

"For many people it's still a mystery how such a sullen and unsociable person who has undergone much in his life could create such a bright, romantic work full of passionate love for people and conviction that happiness will necessarily come, we just have to believe and wait. "