Biography about Green

Green Alexander Stepanovich - the real name of Grinevsky was born on August 11 23 in the city of Slobodsky Vyatka province in the family of the exiled Pole, a participant in the uprising of the year. Sasha received primary education at home. In the year, he entered the Vyatka Zemstvo Real School. In the second grade he wrote a poem in which he ridiculed teachers, for which he was excluded.

Subsequently, he graduated from the four -year Vyatka city school. When Green was 14 years old, his mother died from tuberculosis. Soon the father married a second time. Green did not work out with the stepmother, and he lived separately. The future writer earned a lot: rewritten roles for the theater troupe and binded books. In the year, Green graduated from the school and left for Odessa to become a sailor.

Subsequently, he recalled: “I had no doubt that I would take a paid sailor. I seemed to myself a strong, broad -shouldered, young guy, while I was a weak -breasted, narrow in the shoulders and stoop - but terribly hot -tempered and impatient. ” For several weeks he wandered around the port, lived in a night basement and ate in the starvation. Once he was still taken by the student on the Plato ship, but Green had to pay for food himself.

The newly made sailor cleaned in the hold, washed the deck, manually moved the ship with ropes ... In the spring of the year, Green made his only foreign trip as a sailor: on the steamer "Tsesarevich" to Alexandria. However, during the path he publicly ridiculed the captain and was fired. Green returned home to Vyatka, but in July he again went in search of happiness, this time to Baku.

It turned out even worse. In total, he spent six years in wanderings. He worked as a loader, a digger, a railway worker. He even went to the Ural gold mines in the hope of getting rich. In due to the extreme need, voluntarily “I will be fed and dressed” entered the soldier’s service in the Orova reserve infantry battalion. Due to the obstinate character, he spent several months in Kartsere.

With the help of social-revolutionaries, the Socialist Revolutionaries Green deserted. For about a year, he promoted revolutionary ideas among workers and soldiers in different cities of Russia under the party name for lanky. B was arrested. While the investigation was going on, he was sitting in the Sevastopol prison. In February, Grinevsky was sentenced to summer exile in Siberia, but then he came under the October amnesty in the year Green lived under a foreign passport in St.

Petersburg, was again arrested. In prison, under the guise of a bride, he was visited by Vera Abramov, the daughter of a wealthy official, who shared revolutionary ideas. This time he was really sent to Siberia, from where he fled and returned to Petersburg. The years of life under a stranger has become a time of gap with the revolutionary past and the formation of Green as a writer.

In them, the writer criticized army life, so censorship seized the entire circulation from the printing house. So, the first work that the public saw was the story “To Italy”. Pseudonym "A. Green ”first appeared under the story“ Case ”in the newspaper“ Comrade ”in March. The first collection of stories about the life of the Socialist-Revolutionaries “invisible hat”-about the feelings of people whom fate “abandoned the revolution” came out a year later, in subsequent years, Green became close to the writers of the Knowledge publishing house, which was headed by Maxim Gorky Alexander Kuprin, Leonid Andreev and others.

He began to earn well. However, in the year the police discovered that the writer Green is a fugitive exiled Grinevsky. He was arrested and sentenced to exile in the Arkhangelsk province. Vera Abramova, with whom the writer got married, went with her husband to Pinega. There he wrote the romantic works “The Life of Gnor” and “The Blue Cascade of the Tutluri”.

In years, Green worked actively by publishing in more than 60 publications near stories. Prometheus publishing house released a three -volume with its works. The writer's manner of extracting a dream of human happiness from a tragic reality is getting stronger. The noble people invented by Green inhabited the fictional cities of Liss, Zurbagan, Gel-Gyu-the “mainland” that will later be called Greenland.

He enthusiastically met the February revolution of the year, considered subsequent events a tragedy. He wrote: "The idea that violence can be destroyed by violence does not fit in my head." In August, Green was drafted into the Red Army, where he fell ill with a rash typhus and almost died. After recovery, Maxim Gorky helped the writer get an academic ration and a room in the “House of Arts” on Nevsky Prospekt, where many outstanding writers lived at that time.

It was there that Green began to write his famous extravaganza “Scarlet Sails” - one of the brightest and most life -affirming works of Soviet literature. Nina Mironova, which Green met at the beginning of the year, became prototype Assol. Again they met and got married in the year. In Soviet Russia, Green was almost not printed. But in the year the era of the NEP began, and private publishers opened.

One of them published a new collection of the writer “White Fire” in the year. And three years later, the Leningrad Publishing House "Earth and Factory" printed Green's first novel "The Blinding World." Green's money earned for the romance spent on a trip to the Crimea.In the year, a decision was made to move to Crimea for good. Green sold an apartment in Petrograd and, together with his wife, moved to Feodosia.

Here he wrote such large works as “Golden Chain”, “Running along the waves”, “Jesse and Morgian”, “The road nowhere” and a number of stories. But the real surrounding life rejected Green's world with its creator.

Increasingly, criticisms of the writer's unnecessaryness appeared, the myth of the “foreigner in Russian literature” was created. In the year, Soviet censorship banned the reprinting of Green's works and print more than one of his new books per year. The spouses had to sell an apartment in Feodosia and move to the village of Old Crimea. The writer began the novel “Nedotog” and even went with sketches to Moscow, but not a single publishing house agreed to release him.

The work remains unfinished. Green wrote: “... I am 51 years old. Health is shattered to smithereens, the financial situation is expressed in poverty, and the performance fell sharply ... There are no fees ahead. We eat the last 50 rubles. ” Alexander Green died on July 8. The writer was buried in the local cemetery of the village of Old Crimea. Nina Green chose the place where the sea was visible.

On the grave, a monument “Running along the waves” of the sculptor Tatyana Gagarina was erected.