Search results
The city of Nizhny Novgorod, and the surrounding province were renamed Gorky. Moscow's main park, and one of the central Moscow streets, Tverskaya, were renamed in his honour, as was the Moscow Art Theatre. The largest fixed-wing aircraft in the world in the mid-1930s, the Tupolev ANT-20 was named Maxim Gorky in his honour.
People also ask
Is Nizhny Novgorod named after Maxim Gorky?
Where was Gorky born?
Who was Maxim Gorky?
How many streets in Russia are named Gorky?
- Overview
- Works in Biographical and Historical Context
- Works in Literary Context
- Works in Critical Context
- Responses to Literature
- Bibliography
Maxim Gorky (a pseudonym for Alexei Maximovich Peshkov) is recognized as one of the earliest and foremost exponents of socialist realismin literature. His brutal yet romantic portraits of Russian life and his sympathetic depictions of the working class had an inspirational effect on the oppressed people of his native land. From 1910 until his death...
An Orphan and a Runaway Gorky was orphaned at the age of ten and raised by his maternal grandparents. He was often treated harshly by his grandfather, and Gorky received what little kindness he experienced as a child from his grandmother. During his thirteenth year, Gorky ran away from Nizhny Novgorod, the city of his birth (later renamed Gorky), a...
The Proletarian, or Working Class, HeroGorky's heroes represent protest and unrest: either tramps, cold and hungry but free and without superiors to command them; or strong, positive, lonesomemen.
Whatever the ambiguities of Gorky's political allegiances after the Bolsheviks (the early Communists of the 1917 Russian Revolution) came to power, the Soviet government saw him as a figure who could help bring prestige to the young regime. The authorities came to refer to him as the “father of Soviet literature” and even named various schools, the...
Gorky infused his characters and place names with symbolic meaning. Read one of Gorky's short stories and analyze the symbolism behind its setting and characters in a 3–4-page essay.Read Gorky's play Summer Folk. In a 5–7-page essay, analyze how the Russian Revolutionmight have impacted Gorky's work and literary style. Use examples from the text to support your ideas.With a classmate, research the terms “socialist realism” and “simple realism”. Then, discuss what you think makes Gorky's work socialist realism as opposed to simple realism.In his play The Lower Depths, Gorky contrasts the moral standpoints of “truth” versus the “consoling lie.” Write a personal essay describing your feelings on this issue. Is it better to always tell...Books
Borras, F. M. “Criticism by F. M. Borras.” DISCovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. ———. Maxim Gorky the Writer: An Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress, 1967. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 295: Russian Writers of the Silver Age, 1890–1925. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Ed. Judith E. Kalb, University of South Carolina, and J. Alexander Ogden, University of South Carolina. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Donchin, Georgette. “Gorky.” DISCovering Authors.Online ed. Detroit:...
May 15, 2008 · 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.
Aug 27, 2024 · Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) was a Russian writer who wrote stories, novels, and plays. After his death he was canonized as the patron saint of Soviet letters.
Gorky was born Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov; he adopted the pen name (gorky means “bitter” in Russian) in his late twenties as a kind of public provocation, and it soon took on a life of its own. “A time will come,” Anton Chekhov wrote in 1903, “when people will forget Gorky’s works, but he himself will hardly be forgotten even in a ...
Jul 13, 2014 · In 1932, the writer returned to the USSR, where he received many honors. He was elected president of the newly created Soviet Writers’ Union, and his birthplace, Nizhny Novgorod, was renamed...
Gorky was born in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, renamed Gorky in his honor during the Soviet era but restored to its original name following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1989.
