“mass consciousness is structured in such a way that the boy is needed, and it is no longer possible to erase him from Gorky”
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Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism. 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; these experiences would later influence his writing. He associated with fellow Russian writers Leo…
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culture · Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936) · writer · playwright · novelist · poet · opinion journalist · dramaturge · autobiographer · journalist · diarist · politician · also Maxim Gorky, Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, Maksim Gor'ky, Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, Aleksey Peshkov, Maksim Gorky
Born 16 March 1868 · Died 18 June 1936 · Q12706
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2026· 11 entries
“consider it possible to commit all kinds of crimes ... the abolition of free speech and senseless arrests.”
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“carpenters, stevedores, bricklayers”
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“have become poisoned with the filthy venom of power”
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“cold-blooded trickster who spares neither the honor nor the life of the proletariat. ... He does not know the popular masses, he has not lived with them”
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“All this is so terrible that I am unable to express even one one-hundredth of my heavy feelings, which are perhaps best described in words such as world catastrophe, the downfall of European culture.”
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MiGFlug: ANT-20 Maxim Gorky: The Giant a Stunt Pilot Destroyed
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MiGFlug: ANT-20 Maxim Gorky: El gigante que un piloto acrobático destruyó
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BroadwayWorld: Maxim Gorky News
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Mint: Quote of the day by Maxim Gorky: ‘Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and…’
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The Tablet: Maxim Gorky: a terrific noticer
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2025· 1 entry
The New York Times: The Truth About Maxim Gorky; Friend of the Russian Novelist and Revolutionist Tells for the First Time the Full Story of the Author's Domestic Relations. Conditions in Russia ...
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2020· 1 entry
Moviefone: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) - Where to Watch
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2018· 2 entries
FSUE Russian Post released a miniature sheet dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the writer
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On the 150th anniversary of the writer's birthday, the Bank of Russia issued a commemorative silver coin with a face value of 2 rubles in the series "Outstanding Personalities of Russia"
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2016· 2 entries
“Citation choisie pour le 23 novembre 2016.”
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On the occasion of a new translation of the novel being published, described it as "surprisingly topical" and containing such "eternal themes" as "awakening from a life of fear and ignorance
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2015· 1 entry
RBTH: Maxim Gorky’s birth anniversary marked at the RCSC in New Delhi
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2014· 1 entry
RBTH: The final days of Russian writers: Maxim Gorky
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2013· 1 entry
2110 streets, avenues and lanes in Russia were named "Gorky", and another 395 were named "Maxim Gorky"
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1995· 2 entries
(now Kazan State Agrarian University), the Mari Polytechnic Institute and Perm State University named after Maxim Gorky (1934–1993)
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It was noted that the story about the boy was first told by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago and that there were never details given about the boy's identity, and that the story isn't supported by document
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1988· 1 entry
A 1 ruble coin was issued in the USSR, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the writer
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1985· 1 entry
Gorky's 1906 play Enemies was translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair and Jeremy Brooks and directed in London by Ann Pennington in association with the Internationalist Theatre at the tail end of the British miners' strike of
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1975· 1 entry
Gorky's 1908 play The Last Ones (Последние), had its New York debut at the Manhattan Theater Club, under the alternative English title Our Father, directed by Keith Fowler
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1972· 1 entry
“Gegen den Katzenjammer hilft nur der Branntwein und nicht Gewissensbisse oder Zähneknirschen." - Verlorene Menschen. Aus: Erzählungen aus dem alten Rußland. hg. von Hans Marquardt. Leipzig: Reclam. 1972. S. 12”
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1956· 2 entries
“Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives”
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“Angst ist für die Seele ebenso gesund wie ein Bad für den Körper." - Tagebuchnotizen und Erinnerungen. Aus: Skizzen. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1956. S. 46”
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1944· 1 entry
Tupolev ANT-20 aircraft, nicknamed "Maxim Gorky"
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1938· 1 entry
(last of the three Moscow Trials), one of the charges was that Gorky was killed by Yagoda's NKVD agents
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1936· 31 entries
Died 1936-06-18.
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“Los críticos son como los tábanos, que impiden a los caballos trabajar la tierra.”
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“russischer Schriftsteller”
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“eigentlich: Alexei Maximowitsch Peschkow”
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“A veces la mentira explica mejor que la verdad lo que pasa en el alma.”
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“Vim ao mundo para não estar de acordo.”
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“There's a little book I'm thinking of writing — "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.”
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“Cuando el trabajo es un placer, la vida es bella. Pero cuando nos es impuesto, la vida es una esclavitud.”
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“Chi sa capire tutto è molto infelice.”
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“Cuando se es fuerte hay que ser bueno.”
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“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
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“El héroe principal de nuestros libros debería ser el trabajo.”
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“Não é com sangue que se há de sufocar a razão.”
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“El hombre nace para que un día nazca un hombre mejor.”
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“They will not drown reason in blood;”
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“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want respect for every man — who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?”
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“El que ha nacido para reptar no podría volar.”
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“En la lucha, las horas de hastío y de angustia pasan rápidas, inadvertidas.”
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“La carrozza del passato non porta lontano.”
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“¿Existe Dios? Si crees en él, existe; sino crees en él, no existe.”
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“[Lev Tolstoj] L'uomo più complesso del XIX secolo.”
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“La compasión es la limosna de los pobres de espíritu.”
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“Nei Paesi fascisti, l'omosessualità, rovina dei giovani, fiorisce impunemente; nel Paese dove il proletariato ha audacemente conquistato il potere, l'omosessualità è stata dichiarata crimine sociale e severamente punita. Eliminate gli omosessuali e il fascismo scomparirà.”
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“La conciencia, sólo los poderosos la necesitan.”
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“Non sono in grado di esprimere in poche parole le mie impressioni. Non vorrei, e sarebbe vergognoso [!] ricadere in stereotipati elogi della stupefacente energia di uomini, i quali, essendo attenti e indefessi guardiani della rivoluzione sanno essere, insieme, creatori straordinariamente arditi della cultura.”
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“La mentira es la religión de los esclavos y de los amos.”
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“Per un vecchio, la patria è dappertutto dove fa caldo.”
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“One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.”
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“Las cualidades buenas de nuestro alma, son despertadas con mas éxito y mas contundentemente por el arte. Asi como la ciencia es el intelecto del mundo, el arte es su alma». [The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.]”
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“[...] se ingrandissi alcune migliaia di volte una comune pulce vedresti l'animale più spaventoso della terra, che nessuno sarebbe abbastanza forte da dominare [...] Ma le smorfie più mostruose della storia producono simili ingrandimenti anche nel mondo reale. Stalin è una pulce che la propaganda bolscevica e l'ipnosi della paura hanno ingrandito fino a dimensioni impensabili.”
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“Talvolta, la menzogna dice meglio della verità ciò che avviene nell'anima.”
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1934· 3 entries
“The I.V.Stalin White Sea - Baltic Sea Canal (1934)”
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Career landmark: president (1934–1936).
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Making homosexuality a criminal offense, his attitude coloured by the fact that some members of the Nazi Sturmabteilung were homosexuals
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1933· 2 entries
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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Gorky co-edited, with Averbakh and Firin, an infamous book about the White Sea–Baltic Canal, presented as an example of "successful rehabilitation of the former enemies of proletariat"
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1932· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1932).
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German playwright Bertolt Brecht published his play The Mother, which was based on Gorky's 1906 novel Mother
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1929· 1 entry
“I lager come le Solovki sono indispensabili. (in visita alle Solovki, 20 giugno 1929)”
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1928· 1 entry
Returned to the USSR on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and lived there from 1932 until his death in June 1936
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1923· 1 entry
“Moi universitety - página 159, Maksim Gorky - Verlag "Kniga,", 1923 - 234 páginas”
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1921· 1 entry
Hired a secretary, Moura Budberg, who later became his mistress
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1918· 1 entry
Which would not be republished in Russia until after the Perestroika
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1917· 2 entries
“Untimely Thoughts (1917-18) (original: Наиболее успешно и могуче будит в нашей душе ее добрые начала сила искусства. Как наука является разумом мира, так искусство — сердце его.)”
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“notions that Russian workers are the incarnation of spiritual beauty and kindness”
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1916· 2 entries
“In my early youth I read...the words of...Hillel, if I remember rightly:”
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Gorky said that the teachings of the ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder deeply influenced his life: "In my early youth I read
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1915· 1 entry
Launched the publishing house Parus and the magazine Letopis to spread anti-war stance and "defend the idea of international culture against all manifestations of nationalism and imperialism"; among its prominent writ
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1914· 2 entries
And the outburst of patriotism Gorky became devastated; shortly after the destruction of the Rheims Cathedral, Gorky wrote Andreeva: "All this is so terrible that I am unable to express even one one-hundredth of my heav
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Where he continued his social criticism, mentored other writers from the common people, and wrote a series of important cultural memoirs, including the first part of his autobiography
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1912· 1 entry
The Italian composer Giacomo Orefice based his opera Radda on the character of Radda in Gorky's 1892 short story Makar Chudra
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1907· 1 entry
“Mother - página 498, Maksim Gorky - D. Appleton and company, 1907 - 499 páginas”
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1906· 4 entries
The Bolsheviks sent him on a fund-raising trip to the United States with Ivan Narodny
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Maxim Gorky visited New York City at the invitation of Mark Twain and other writers
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The Life of a Useless Man (Жизнь ненужного человека, 1908)
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In the United States with the goal to support the revolutionary mood of the Russian workers by conveying the political agenda among the readers through his work
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1904· 1 entry
Having severed his relationship with the Moscow Art Theatre in the wake of conflict with Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Gorky returned to Nizhny Novgorod to establish a theatre of his own
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1903· 1 entry
Awarded Griboyedov Prize (1903).
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1902· 2 entries
“The character "Luka" in The Lower Depths (1902) English translation by Laurence Irving (1912)”
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Gorky was elected an honorary Academician of Literature, but Tsar Nicholas II ordered this annulled
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1899· 1 entry
“Foma Gordeyev (1899) [also translated as The Man Who Was Afraid; the English music group Led Zeppelin would later name their record label "Swan Song.”
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1898· 1 entry
Enjoyed a sensational success and his career as a writer began
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1896· 1 entry
Met Zinovy Peshkov, who upon being baptized in 1902 adopted Gorky's last name, as Gorky was Peshkov's godfather
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1892· 1 entry
When his first short story, "Makar Chudra", was published by the newspaper Kavkaz (The Caucasus) in Tiflis where he spent several weeks doing menial jobs, mostly for the Caucasian Railway workshops
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-03-16.
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