Neistovyj mechtatel' Aleksandr Grin - priznannyj master syuzheta. Ego knigi otlichaet smelyj polet fantazii - s vysokim otryvom ot beskryloj dejstvitel'nosti. V svoih rasskazah on risuet strany, sozdannye iz sveta, morskih vetrov i tsvetuschih trav, gde v raznoyazychnom shume gavanej sobirayutsya zolotoiskateli, ohotniki, hudozhniki, neunyvayuschie brodyagi, no prezhde vsego - moryaki. Grin povestvuet o muzhestve etih vechnyh truzhenikov, o moguschestve prirody i osobenno berezhno i vzvolnovanno - o lyubvi.
Alexander Grin or Green is the pen name of Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevskiĭ (Russian: Александр Степанович Грин (настоящее имя — Алексaндр Степaнович Гринeвский)), August 23, 1880 – July 8, 1932) , a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor. He was a sailor, gold miner and construction worker, but generally lived a life of a vagabond.