Scarlet Sails

At sixteen, Alexander Grin decided to become a sailor: he lived a vagabond life, starved, traveled by ship, then shared revolutionary views, was arrested, and even exiled, and later created an entire fictional country, Greenland, the map of which is known from the writer's works, since the action of many of the writer's romantic novellas and short stories takes place precisely in this country. But he was unable to give his Assol — Nina — wealth, yet he did not allow her to work...