Alexander Green has a very special reputation in Russian literature. His works consist of many original recognizable images. The life of the writer was just as versatile and amazing.
Childhood
Green Alexander was born in the Vyatka province in the town of Slobodskaya. By nationality, he was half Pole. His father participated in the uprising against the tsarist authorities and was exiled to Siberia. Already there he was allowed to settle in Vyatka. Stefan Grinovsky, or in the Russian manner of Stepan, married a young nurse Anna Lepkova.
Alexander was their first son. He was born in 1880. The child was distinguished by a peculiar character. He was constantly mischievous and at some point was expelled from school. Since childhood, he loved reading, and his first handbook was the satirical novel "The Adventures of Gulliver." As you know, there were elements of fiction in it, so it is not surprising that Green Alexander wrote in this genre in adulthood. The pseudonym by which he became famous in Russian literature was an abbreviated form of his father's surname. So he was also called school comrades.
Youth
Growing up, Green Alexander decided to devote his life to adventure. At the age of 16, he went to Odessa. There he managed to find a longtime friend of his father, who arranged him as a sailor on one of the ships. In his travels, the young man visited many countries, he even managed to be in Egyptian Alexandria. The aesthetics of the sea have always attracted a young man. Later this will be reflected in his work. Nevertheless, the faded life of the sailor was not to his liking, and soon Green Alexander returned home for a year.
Having made a short respite, the adventurer decided to try his luck in distant Baku. There he made his living in many unexpected ways: he was a laborer, a fisherman, a foreman on the railroad. Finding himself a little later in the Urals, he tried himself as a lumberjack and gold miner.
Revolutionary activity
At the age of 22, Green decided to join the army and there he met closely with the local Socialist Revolutionaries. Revolutionary ideas carried away the young man, and he himself began to propagate many of the ideas of party members. True, he was against terror, which in those years had a large scale. Many comrades noticed the speaker’s talent and advised Green to try his hand at writing. However, he hears this call a little later.
In the meantime, the young revolutionary was arrested in Crimea for anti-government speeches. Green tried to escape from prison. When he was once again caught, a lengthy investigation began, which was stopped after the 1905 amnesty. Alexander was sent to exile in Siberia, from where he escaped on the first day. That was the norm at the time. In his native Vyatka, Green received a passport in the false name and went with him to the capital.
Writing
In St. Petersburg begins a literary career, which sought to Alexander Green. The biography of this person includes many pseudonyms. Then he signed with all kinds of initials. One way or another, a new face in the capital's bohemian is becoming noticeable thanks to its talent in the short story genre. There are copyright collections. Green meets Leonid Andreev, Alexei Tolstoy, Mikhail Kuzmin, Valery Bryusov and other writers of the Silver Age.
A few years later, the police discovered that the popular writer was a runaway convict. Again the link that Alexander Green so did not want. The biography of the writer continued in the distant Pinega. His lover Vera Abramova went with him, with whom he soon married.
Green lived in exile for two years, after which he returned to Petersburg in 1912. He spent the last years on the eve of the great war extremely productively, publishing romantic stories. Soon this name became known - Alexander Green. The works were regularly published in popular publications. During these years, he divorced his wife. When the war began, his works began to have a clear anti-militarist character in spite of the then enthusiasm for the imminent victory over the Germans.
Because of this, the state security bodies again turned their attention to the writer. Green had to hide in Finland. However, a revolution soon occurred, and he returned to Russia.
Soviet years
By general appeal, many were taken into the army. Alexander Green faced the same thing. Interesting facts from life are overshadowed by typhoid, with which he fell ill in a short service.
The writer was patronized by Maxim Gorky, who then had a great influence throughout the country as a "petrel of the revolution." He struck Green a room in the famous House of Arts, where many colleagues in the creative workshop lived. His neighbors were Osip Mandelstam, Nikolai Gumilev, Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky and Benjamin Kaverin.
It was here that Green wrote his most famous and colorful work - the story "Scarlet Sails". The genre of this thing he himself defined as "extravaganza." Soon, the writer’s first novel, The Shining World, was released. Green not only went on vacation to his beloved Crimean places, but also bought a new apartment in Leningrad.
Persecution and posthumous fate
However, external prosperity ended with the illusions of a young Soviet state. The NEP was curtailed, and censorship started, there were problems with publishers with whom Alexander Green collaborated. A brief biography dryly tells the reader that party functionaries did not want to see the author’s books on library shelves.
The apartment in Leningrad was sold for debts. The ordeals that Alexander Green faced had begun. A brief biography of the writer at that time is a need and a half-starved existence. At first he tried to ask for help in the Union, which was led by Gorky, but there was no answer.
In the end, the health of an already elderly person began to deplete. Alexander Green passed away in 1932 at the age of 52. His works were allowed much later, already during the Khrushchev thaw. True, before that, in the last Stalin years, he was also branded a cosmopolitan during the state propaganda campaign.
The second appearance of books before the Soviet reader was immediately marked by success. Many works were filmed or became the basis for productions in theaters.