The Maritime Legacy of Aleksei Vasilievich Hanzen Born amidst the salt spray and maritime grandeur of Odessa on February 2, 1876, Aleksei Vasilievich Hanzen was destined to become a master of the sea. His connection to the ocean was not merely professional but deeply ancestral; as the grandson of the legendary Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Hanzen spent his formative years wandering the workshops of his grandfather along the Black S…