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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков; 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Writer, journalist, politician
- 1892–1936
- Modern
- Griboyedov Prize (1903, 1904)
Mar 24, 2024 · Maxim Gorky (born March 16 [March 28, New Style], 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia—died June 14, 1936) was a Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, including his famous The Lower Depths.
Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28, 1868 – June 14, 1936) better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist.
Maxim Gorky, orig. Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, (born March 28, 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia—died June 14, 1936, Nizhny Novgorod), Russian writer. After a childhood of poverty and misery (his assumed name, Gorky, means “bitter”), he became a wandering tramp. His early works offered sympathetic portrayals of the social dregs of Russia ...
May 14, 2018 · Learn about the life and literature of Maxim Gorky, a pioneer of socialist realism and a friend of Lenin. Explore his stories, plays, and poems that portray the struggles and hopes of the Russian people.
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent. 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.
Learn about the remarkable career and personality of Maxim Gorky, the world's most famous writer in the early twentieth century and a key figure in the Russian Revolution. Explore his writings, activism, friendships, exiles, and controversies with new Russian sources.
