The sea stories and tales of the outstanding Russian writer Konstantin Mikhailovich Stanyukovich (1843-1903) are equally read by beardless young men dreaming of long voyages and gray-haired men. The realist writer showed Russian sailors and officers in all their courage and fearlessness, in all their purely Russian, unconscious humanism, in all the purity of their beautiful and honest souls, in all their selfless love for their native ship and the Russian fleet - in love that gives rise to the strongest naval camaraderie, storm and combat. This book tells about the extraordinary adventures of a Russian sailor, who, by chance, was left on a foreign American shore without comrades, without money, without a language. The story has not been republished for almost four decades.