Maxim Gorky

Known for WritingBorn 1869-03-28Died 1936-06-18Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]

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).Read more

Movies & web series

The Petty Bourgeois

Enemies

Les Cent Livres des Hommes

Wassa Schelesnowa

Dostigayev and Others

Mother

Without Sun

Maa

The Lower Depths

The Lower Depths

Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla

Appassionata

Children of the Sun

The Lower Depths

Albergue de mujeres

Summerfolk

The Philistines

La Vida No Vale Nada

Mother

The Cure

Stormy Petrel

Summer Guests

The Artamonov Case

The Life of Klim Samgin

Life of Klim Samgin

Across Rus'

Summer Residents

Onde a Terra Começa

The Lower Depths

Cain and Artem

The Lower Depths

Vassa Zheleznova

The Barbarians

Mother

The Orlovs

The Madness of the Valiants

A Man Before His Time

Boles

Vassa

Foma Gordeyev

The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue

The Mother

Souls on the Road

Children of the Sun

Ilaingan

My Apprenticeship

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky

My Universities