Gorky was active in the emerging Marxist socialist movement and later supported the Bolsheviks. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and …

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.

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 …

Maksim Gorky is a pseudonym of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov, who was born into a poor Russian family in Nizhnii Novgorod on Volga river. Gorky lost his father at an early age, he was beaten by his …

His chosen pseudonym "Gorky" translates directly as "bitter." Fittingly, his chosen first name, "Maxim" means "a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct."

Between 1899 and 1906 Gorky lived mainly in St. Petersburg, where he became a Marxist, supporting the Social Democratic Party. After the split in that party in 1903, Gorky went with its Bolshevik wing. …

Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), Russian author and political activist, founder of socialist realism Arshile Gorky (1904–1948), Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter

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 …

Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and master of the modern short story. He was a literary artist of laconic precision who probed below the surface of life, laying bare the secret motives of his …

May 16, 2024 · Arshile Gorky, a seminal figure in 20th-century art, remains renowned for his contributions to Abstract Expressionism. Born in Armenia in 1904 as Vostanik Adoian, he later …