“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 Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.
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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“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: El gigante que un piloto acrobático destruyó
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MiGFlug: ANT-20 Maxim Gorky: The Giant a Stunt Pilot Destroyed
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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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Moviefone: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) - Where to Watch
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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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FSUE Russian Post released a miniature sheet dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the writer
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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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RBTH: Maxim Gorky’s birth anniversary marked at the RCSC in New Delhi
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2110 streets, avenues and lanes in Russia were named "Gorky", and another 395 were named "Maxim Gorky"
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(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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A 1 ruble coin was issued in the USSR, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the writer
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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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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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“Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives”
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Tupolev ANT-20 aircraft, nicknamed "Maxim Gorky"
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(last of the three Moscow Trials), one of the charges was that Gorky was killed by Yagoda's NKVD agents
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Died 1936-06-18.
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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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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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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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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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Hired a secretary, Moura Budberg, who later became his mistress
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Which would not be republished in Russia until after the Perestroika
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“notions that Russian workers are the incarnation of spiritual beauty and kindness”
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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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“In my early youth I read...the words of...Hillel, if I remember rightly:”
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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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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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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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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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The Bolsheviks sent him on a fund-raising trip to the United States with Ivan Narodny
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The Life of a Useless Man (Жизнь ненужного человека, 1908)
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Maxim Gorky visited New York City at the invitation of Mark Twain and other writers
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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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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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Awarded Griboyedov Prize (1903).
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Gorky was elected an honorary Academician of Literature, but Tsar Nicholas II ordered this annulled
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Awarded Honorary Academician in the field of belles-lettres.
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Career landmark: Participated in 1934 Soviet Writers' Congress (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (tournament / event).
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Enjoyed a sensational success and his career as a writer began
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Met Zinovy Peshkov, who upon being baptized in 1902 adopted Gorky's last name, as Gorky was Peshkov's godfather
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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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Born 1868-03-16.
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