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Aleksandr Stepanovich Grin

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Pseudonym of:
Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky
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] (aged 51)
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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 important element in many of his stories. He worked at a variety of jobs and then roamed across European Russia and the Urals. In the ...(100 of 323 words)

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