Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Максим Горький), was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works are a short story collection 'Sketches and Stories' (1899), plays 'The Philistines' (1901), 'The Lower Depths' (1902) and 'Children of the Sun' (1905), poem 'The Song of the Stormy Petrel' (1901), autobiographical trilogy 'My Childhood', 'In the World', 'My Universities' (1913–1923), and novel 'Mother' (1906). Though Gorky himself judged some of these works as failures, most are now seen as masterpieces. Some of his less-known post-revolutionary works such as the cycles 'Fragments from My Diary' (1924) and 'Stories of 1922–1924' (1925), and novels 'The Artamonov Business' (1925) and 'The Life of Klim Samgin' (1925–1936), Gorky himself was more proud of; the latter is considered Gorky's masterpiece and sometimes being viewed by critics as a modernist work. Unlike his pre-revolutionary writings (known for their "anti-psychologism"), these differ with an ambivalent portrayal of the Russian Revolution and "unmodern interest to human psychology" (as noted by D. S. Mirsky).
Known for
WritingBirthday
March 28, 1869Deathday
June 18, 1936Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
74Place of birth
Nizhny Novgorod, USSRAlso known as
Максим Горький, Maxime Gorki, Maximo Gorki
Crew credits
Mother
Novel
Souls on the Road
Original Story
Mother
Novel
Mother
Novel
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue
Novel
The Lower Depths
Writer
Boles
Story
La vida no vale nada
Story
The Lower Depths
Theatre Play
Stormy Petrel
Story
Dachniki
Writer
The Artamonov Case
Writer
Across Rus'
Writer
Foma Gordeyev
Novel
The Madness of the Valiants
Short Story, Story
Life of Klim Samgin
Novel
The Lower Depths
Writer
Dostigayev and Others
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