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Aleksandr Stepanovich Grin

Soviet author
Also known as: Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky
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Aleksandr Stepanovich Grin (born Aug. 11 [Aug. 23, New Style], 1880, Slobodskoy, Russia—died July 8, 1932, Stary Krym, Crimea, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now in Ukraine]) was a Soviet prose writer notable for his romantic short stories of adventure and mystery. The son of an exiled Pole, Grin spent a childhood of misery and poverty in a northern provincial town. Leaving home at 15, he traveled to Odessa, where he fell in love with the sea, an...

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