Sea stories (illustrated)

"Sea Tales" by Konstantin Stanyukovich is full of lively domestic interest and the relief, masterfully outlined types of Russian sailors. This was facilitated by the personal experience of the sea voyages of the writer, sometimes acting almost like a reporter observing real life scenes.Contemporary critics compared him to K. M. Stanyukovich with the great artist I. K. Aivazovsky and even proposed a special term that defines the specific genre of his marine works: "literary marinism".Both readers and critics praised the ability of K. M. Stanyukovich to express the colorfulness of marine paintings and the ability to create accurate types of sailors.According to the writer and playwright V.V. Vishnevsky (who fought in the navy and wrote about sailors), the marine types of Stanyukovich were "tremendously vital," and the portrayal he portrayed as "a gallery of sea wolves, beating, cruel customs, a Marsoflot spirit, the first protests of sailors, everything tied into a magnificent maritime knot of a living, suffering epic. "