the Italian composer Giacomo Orefice based his opera Radda on the character of Radda from Makar Chudra . [ edit ] Gallery Gorky, Kaganovich , Molotov , Voroshilov, Stalin and Kalinin at the podium of Lenin's mausoleum. Portrait of Gorky by Ilya Repin . Oil on canvas, 1899 Maxim Gorky (left)