Alexander Grin (real name and surname Alexander Stepanovich Grinevsky | 1880–1932) is a well-known Russian romantic writer, science fiction writer, an excellent landscape painter and a subtle psychologist. The lyric-emotional mood of his prose is subject not only to the laws of the adventurous genre, but also to the affirmation of eternal human values: goodness, honor, justice.This volume presents three works by Green. The famous fairy tale “Scarlet Sails”, which has become a symbol of the dream of happiness come true, gives hope for an “ordinary miracle”, which nevertheless happens in a continuous series of similar days that make up the thin thread of our life. The novel The Shining World tells about Drud, a man endowed with the miraculous gift of flight, like flying in a dream, and his persecution by the soulless rich who rule the world. The novel "The Golden Chain" features a rich adventure plot, bright romantic characters. As always with Green, the pragmatism of life clashes with its romantic alternative. And as always, the victory, even moral, remains with romance.