Maxim Gorky

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
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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.

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.

Gallery

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  A portrait

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  Maxim Gorky and Joseph Stalin, 1931

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  A postage stamp from 1946 (from the Soviet Union

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  Another Soviet postage stamp from 1968

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  Path to happiness is work, by Maxim Gorky

Other websites

• Works by Maxim Gorky at Project Gutenberg
• Maxim Gorky at the Internet Movie Database