Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в or Пе́шков; 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Макси́м Го́рький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist.
Maxim Gorky was revered as the leading Russian artist and intellectual associated with the 1917 Revolution throughout the lifetime of the Soviet Union. ... Among the portraits of Soviet heroes that used to hang in every Russian school and library the one of Maxim Gorky was nearly always given pride of place with Lenin.
Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913–1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905).
Mother (Russian: Мать) is a novel written by Maxim Gorky
in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. It was first published, in
English, in Appleton's Magazine in 1906, then in Russian in 1907. The
work was translated into many languages, and was made into a number of
films.
The Gorki Park .
Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure is a central park in Moscow, named after Maxim Gorky. In August 2018, the Park's 90th anniversary was celebrated.
The sudden death of Gorky's son Maxim Peshkov in May 1934 was followed by the death of Maxim Gorky himself in June 1936 from pneumonia. Speculation has long surrounded the circumstances of his death. Stalin and Molotov were among those who carried Gorky's urn during the funeral.
MAXIM GORKI'S MOTHER - A CLASSIC
, Russian
short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts .
He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.From 1898—when he was thirty—until his mysterious death in Stalin's Russia, Gorki was the most famous,
the most embattled of the Russian novelists, both in Russia and in the
outside world. He was a symbol of the Russian turmoil, and like all
symbols had the strength of being open to many interpretations.
Maxim Gorky was revered as the leading Russian artist and intellectual associated with the 1917 Revolution throughout the lifetime of the Soviet Union. ... Among the portraits of Soviet heroes that used to hang in every Russian school and library the one of Maxim Gorky was nearly always given pride of place with Lenin.
Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913–1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905).
The Gorki Park .
Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure is a central park in Moscow, named after Maxim Gorky. In August 2018, the Park's 90th anniversary was celebrated.
Gorky Park is famous
for many things, not many of them good. For Muscovites, their city's
biggest green space used to be known as a place of regimented Soviet-era
fun, full of strolling proletarian families eating cheap ice cream to
the sound of military bands.
The sudden death of Gorky's son Maxim Peshkov in May 1934 was followed by the death of Maxim Gorky himself in June 1936 from pneumonia. Speculation has long surrounded the circumstances of his death. Stalin and Molotov were among those who carried Gorky's urn during the funeral.
GREAT WRITER OF THE WORLD
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