About the book: 2009 / In 1896, Russian children received a new Robinsonade - the book by E. A. Granstrem (1843-1918) "Elena Robinson" , which was about a girl who found herself on a desert island after a shipwreck. Extraordinary adventures and discoveries, as well as the writer’s special language, make this book a brilliant example of children’s literature at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, which even today does not leave readers of all ages indifferent..