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Maxim Gorky

Profession
Writing
Born
March 28, 1869 · Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died
June 18, 1936

Biography

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).

Known for

The Lower Depths poster
The Lower Depths
Film · 1957 · ★ 7.1
The Lower Depths poster
The Lower Depths
Film · 1936 · ★ 7.2
Mother poster
Mother
Film · 1926 · ★ 7.1
La Vida No Vale Nada poster
La Vida No Vale Nada
Film · 1955 · ★ 8.1
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue poster
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue
Film · 1976 · ★ 6.3
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky poster
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Film · 1938 · ★ 6.0
Vassa poster
Vassa
Film · 1983 · ★ 6.3
My Apprenticeship poster
My Apprenticeship
Film · 1939 · ★ 6.0
Mother poster
Mother
Film · 1990 · ★ 4.6
My Universities poster
My Universities
Film · 1940 · ★ 5.6
Boles poster
Boles
Film · 2013 · ★ 6.1
Souls on the Road poster
Souls on the Road
Film · 1921 · ★ 6.3

Filmography