caption movement death_date death_place influenced pseudonym birth_place nationality birth_date period signature genre image article_title birth_name occupation
portrait of gorky , c. 1906 socialist realism 18 june 1936 gorki leninskiye , moscow oblast , russia hamid olimjon maxim gorky nizhny novgorod , russian empire russian , soviet 28 march 1868 16 march modernism maximgorkysignature.svg novel , drama maxim gorky loc restored edit1.jpg maxim gorky
 alexei maximovich peshkov writer , dramatist , politician
maxim gorky

alexei maximovich peshkov -lrb- or 28 march 1868 -- 18 june 1936 -rrb- , primarily known as maxim -lrb- maksim -rrb- gorky -lrb- ; or -rrb- , was a russian and soviet writer , a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist .
around fifteen years before success as a writer , he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the russian empire ; these experiences would later influence his writing .
gorky 's most famous works were `` the lower depths '' -lrb- 1902 -rrb- , `` twenty-six men and a girl '' , `` the song of the stormy petrel '' , `` the mother '' , `` summerfolk '' and `` children of the sun '' .
he had an association with fellow russian writers leo tolstoy and anton chekhov ; gorky would later write his memoirs on both of them .
gorky was active with the emerging marxist social-democratic movement .
he publicly opposed the tsarist regime , and for a time closely associated himself with vladimir lenin and alexander bogdanov 's bolshevik wing of the party .
for a significant part of his life , he was exiled from russia and later the soviet union .
in 1932 , he returned to russia on joseph stalin 's personal invitation and died in june 1936 .
