The Alexander Grin Literary Museum is located in the center of Feodosia on Gallery Street, 150 meters from the Aivazovsky Art Gallery and the Museum of Antiquities. Many tourists usually visit these three museums during one excursion. The museum is located in the house where the writer Alexander Grin lived from 1924 to 1929.
Alexander Grin was born in 1880, in a small town of Sloboda, Kirov region. In his youth, he tried dozens of professions, and at the beginning of the 20th century he became interested in revolutionary ideas. In 1904, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years of exile, but in 1905 he was released under an amnesty. In 1906 he became a writer.
After the revolution of 1917, he did not accept the Soviet power and publicly condemned it. He was arrested and sentenced to be shot, but then released again. Maxim Gorky helped him get a room in the House of Arts, on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. Lev Gumilev, Osip Mandelstam and many other famous writers lived in this house at that time.
In 1923 Alexander Grin published his most famous novel "Scarlet Sails". This is a touching story about a girl Assol from a small fishing village, who believed that one day a prince would come for her on a brig with scarlet sails and take her away. This story has become a symbol of youthful hopes for all future generations.
The story is studied at school, it has been translated into most European languages. Several feature films Scarlet Sails have been made in several countries. Since 2005, the Scarlet Sails School Leavers` Holiday has been held in St. Petersburg. Its culmination is the entry into the Neva River of a brig with scarlet sails.
In the memorial museum of Alexander Grin in Feodosia, only in the writer`s workroom the interior that was here during his lifetime has been recreated. The remaining halls of the museum are decorated in the style of ship cabins. The museum recreates the romantic world of the heroes of Grin`s works. A bas-relief of a brigantine is installed on the outer wall of the museum building.
