Maxim Gorky
Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (Old style: 16 March 1868, New style: 28 March – 18 June 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
Maxim Gorky | |
|---|---|
 Portrait of Gorky, c. 1906 | |
| Born | 28 March [O.S. March 16] 1868 Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire |
| Died | 18 June 1936 (aged 68) Gorki Leninskiye, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Signature |  |
From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country.
Selected Works
- The Lower Depths (На дне), 1902
- Children of the Sun (Дети солнца), 1905
Gallery
A portrait
Maxim Gorky and Joseph Stalin, 1931
A postage stamp from 1946 (from the Soviet Union
Another Soviet postage stamp from 1968
Path to happiness is work, by Maxim Gorky
).jpg)
.jpg)
Maxim Gorky Media
Anton Chekhov and Gorky. 1900, Yalta
Leo Tolstoy with Gorky in Yasnaya Polyana, 1900
Between 1909–1911 Gorky lived on the island of Capri in the burgundy-coloured "Villa Behring".
Avel Enukidze, Joseph Stalin and Maxim Gorky celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sportintern. Red Square, Moscow USSR. August 1931
On his definitive return to the Soviet Union in 1932, Maxim Gorky received the Ryabushinsky Mansion, designed in 1900 by Fyodor Schechtel for the Ryabushinsky family. The mansion today houses a museum about Gorky.
Gorky' s article "On the issue of Demons"
Grave of Maxim Gorky in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Portrait of Maxim Gorky by Mikhail Nesterov (1901)
