Katayev Valentin. A White Sail Gleams

Moscow: Progress, 1973. - 279 c.
Translated from the Russian by Leonard Stoklitsky.
Illustrated by Vitali Goryaev.
First edition: 1954.
Russian title: The Lonely Sail Whitens (1936).From the author's preface:
At the time of the Russian revolution of 1905 I was just a boy of eight, but I clearly remember the battleship Potemkin, a red flag on her mast, sailing along the coast past Odessa. I witnessed the fighting on the barricades, I saw overturned horse-trams, twisted and torn street wires, revolvers, rifles, dead bodies. Many years later I wrote A White Sail Gleams, a novel in which I tried to convey the invigorating spirit that had been infused into the life of Russia by her first revolution. Such are the recollections of veteran Soviet writer and State Prize winner Valentin Katayev.