Simplify the following text for a Grade 16 native English-speaking person.
Original: Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov ( In Russian Ð Ð '' Ð Ð Ñ Ð Ð Ð Ð Ð Ñ Ð Ð 1\/4 Ð 3\/4 Ð Ð Ñ Ð Ð Ñ Ð Ð 3\/4 Ð ) ( Old Style : March 28,1868 , New style : March 16 â `` June 18 , 1936 ) , better known as Maxim Gorky ( Ð Ð Ð Ñ Ð Ð 1\/4 Ð `` Ð 3\/4 Ñ Ñ Ð Ð Ð ) , was a Soviet\/Russian author , a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist .
Simplified: On that same day Stalin left his autograph on the last page of this work by Gorky : '' Ð Ñ Ð Ñ Ñ Ñ Ð Ð Ñ Ð Ð '' Ñ Ð 1\/2 Ð Ð Ñ Ð Ð 1\/4 '' Ð Ð Ñ Ñ Ñ '' Ð `` Ñ ` Ñ Ð ( Ð '' Ñ Ð Ð 3\/4 Ð Ñ Ð Ð 3\/4 Ð Ð Ð Ð Ð Ð Ñ Ñ Ð 1\/4 Ð Ñ Ñ Ñ ) '' ( `` This piece is stronger than Goethe 's Faust ( love defeats death ) '' .