Maxim Gorky

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 Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. 

From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country.

 Selected Works 
 The Lower Depths (На дне), 1902
 Children of the Sun (Дети солнца), 1905

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Category:1868 births
Category:1936 deaths
Category:Russian writers
Category:People from Nizhny Novgorod