About

Known credits:
80
Birthday:
1869-03-28
Place of birth:
Nizhny Novgorod, USSR
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Maxim Gorky

Overview

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

Writing
2023 Kinder der Sonne Writing Theatre Play N/A
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2022 The Lower Depths Writing Original Story N/A
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2021 The Cure Writing Novel 59
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2014 The Lower Depths Writing Writer N/A
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2013 Boles Writing Story 59
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2011 Ilaingan Writing Novel 59
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2004 Stormy Petrel Writing Story N/A
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2004 The Philistines Writing Original Story N/A
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1995 Summerfolk Writing Author N/A
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1990 Mother Writing Novel 58
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1989 Eccentrics Writing Author N/A
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1988 The Life of Klim Samgin Writing Novel 68
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1987 Without Sun Writing Writer N/A
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1986 Life of Klim Samgin Writing Novel 59
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1985 Children of the Sun Writing Theatre Play 58
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1984 Malva Writing Original Story N/A
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1984 Maa Writing Original Story N/A
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1983 Vassa Writing Writer 59
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1980 Vassa Železnovová Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1980 Falošný peniaz Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1978 Enemies Writing Writer N/A
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1978 Meštiaci Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1976 The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue Writing Novel 59
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1976 Summer Guests Writing Writer 59
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1974 Enemies Writing Writer N/A
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1974 Matka Writing Novel N/A
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1973 The Last Ones Writing Novel N/A
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1973 Yegor Bulychyov and Others Writing Theatre Play 58
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1973 A Man Before His Time Writing Theatre Play 59
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1972 Uprostřed babího léta ve stepi zahoukal vlak Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1972 The Lower Depths Writing Theatre Play 59
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1971 The Philistines Writing Story N/A
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1970 Vassa Železnovová Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1970 Jegor Bulyčov Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1970 Bývalí ľudia Writing Short Story N/A
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1970 Shake-Up Writing Story N/A
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1969 Before the Storm Writing Story N/A
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1969 Forest Writing Short Story N/A
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1968 Piccoli borghesi Writing Writer N/A
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1968 Across Rus' Writing Writer 59
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1968 Jegor Bulyčov Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1968 Li-ittle! Writing Original Story N/A
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1967 Dachniki Writing Writer 59
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1967 Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla Writing Original Story N/A
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1967 Song of a Falcon Writing Writer N/A
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1966 Onde a Terra Começa Writing Original Story N/A
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1965 The Philistines Writing Author N/A
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1963 Appassionata Writing Short Story N/A
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1963 Wassa Schelesnowa Writing Writer N/A
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1962 Jegor Bulyčov a ti druzí Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1962 Měšťáci Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1959 Foma Gordeyev Writing Novel 59
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1959 Dostigayev and Others Writing Writer N/A
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1958 Měšťáci Writing Theatre Play N/A
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1957 The Lower Depths Writing Theatre Play 61
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1956 The Mother Writing Novel N/A
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1956 Mother Writing Novel 58
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1956 Children of the Sun Writing Screenplay N/A
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1955 La vida no vale nada Writing Story 60
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1953 Vassa Zheleznova Writing Writer N/A
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1953 The Barbarians Writing Writer N/A
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1953 Foes Writing Novel 58
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1952 The Lower Depths Writing Writer N/A
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1946 Albergue de mujeres Writing Author N/A
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1941 Мать Writing Novel N/A
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1941 The Artamonov Case Writing Writer 59
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1940 My Universities Writing Book 58
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1939 My Apprenticeship Writing Book 58
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1938 The Childhood of Maxim Gorky Writing Book 59
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1938 Enemies Writing Author 58
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1936 The Lower Depths Writing Novel 60
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1930 Cain and Artem Writing Short Story 58
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1929 An Affair of the Clasps Writing Story N/A
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1926 Mother Writing Novel 60
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1926 The Madness of the Valiants Writing Story 58
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1926 The Madness of the Valiants Writing Short Story 58
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1921 Souls on the Road Writing Original Story 59
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1920 Mother Writing Novel N/A
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Kinder der Sonne Writing Adaptation 59
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The Life of Klim Samgin Writing Novel N/A
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