Maxim Gorky facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Maxim Gorky
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![]() Portrait of Gorky, c. 1906
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Born | 28 March [O.S. March 16] 1868 Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire |
Died | 18 June 1936 Gorki Leninskiye, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR |
(aged 68)
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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.
- The Lower Depths (На дне), 1902
- Children of the Sun (Дети солнца), 1905
Images for kids
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"Ex Libris Maxim Gorki" bookplate from his personal library depicts the unchained Prometheus rising from pages of a book, crushing a multi-tailed whip and shooing away black crows. Saint Basil's Cathedral portrayed in the background
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Between 1909–1911 Gorky lived on the island of Capri in the burgundy-coloured "Villa Behring".
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Avel Enukidze, Joseph Stalin and Maxim Gorky celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sportintern. Red Square, Moscow USSR. August 1931
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Grave of Maxim Gorky in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
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Gorky memorial plaque on Glinka street in Smolensk
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Postage stamp, GDR, 1953
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Monument in Chisinau