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 | |
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 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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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
change- The Lower Depths (На дне), 1902
- Children of the Sun (Дети солнца), 1905
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A portrait -
Maxim Gorky and Joseph Stalin, 1931 -
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Another Soviet postage stamp from 1968 -
Path to happiness is work, by Maxim Gorky
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