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Zinovy Peshkov was a son of a Nizhny Novgorod craftsman, who became a French military commander and diplomat. He was a brother of the famous revolutionary Yakov Sverdlov, but an ardent...
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков; [a] 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. [1] He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. [2]
Maxim Gorky was born in Russia as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov. After the death of his father, he lived with his grandparents when his mother remarried. His grandfather treated him harshly and sent him to work when he was eight years old.
In 1895, Russian journalist Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, a onetime shoemaker’s apprentice who had quit school at 10, adopted a new name: Maxim Gorky. After that, literary fame came fast and furious for this self-taught, fresh-voiced grandson of a Volga boatman.
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov took the pen name Maxim Gorky – literally “Maxim Bitter” – early in his youth. Just like Charles Dickens, Gorky represented a whole host of characters from lower...
The film shows the earlier years of Alexei Peshkov, better known as Soviet's famous Maxim Gorky; it takes the audience through Alexei's experience at his maternal grandparent's home in the town of Nizhny Novgorod.
Media in category "Maxim Peshkov" The following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total. Entracte Lioubov Iarovaïa 3 octobre 1928.jpg 1,050 × 937; 244 KB.