Paperback. 1963. Escape. By K.M. Stanyukovich. In Russian. Colour illustrations. B/w frontispiece. Illustrated endpapers. Sea stories infused with the exciting romance of the sea as a symbol of struggle and freedom, beauty and courage; at the same time they are deeply lyrical in Stanyukovich's boundless love for the Russian expanses. Konstantin Mikhaylovich Stanyukovich (Russian:; March 30, 1843May 20, 1903) was a Russian writer, remembered today mostly for his stories of the Russian Imperial Navy. The sea stories tell of kind captains and of cruel ones, of efficient or indifferent first officers, of idealistic lieutenants, of terrible boatswains and of the harmless. An admiral of ridiculous volatility makes several cameo appearances, stunning the officers, the crews, and the reader with his tantrums, and all else notwithstanding, with his deep love and respect for the sea and his charges. Shipwrecks, female passengers, adventures in distant America,