Maxim Gorky
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- March 28, 1869
- Died
- June 18, 1936 (aged 67)
- Birthplace
- Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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
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Filmography
National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk
Movie · Theatre Play
The devil's love
Movie · Idea
Kinder der Sonne
Movie · Theatre Play
The Lower Depths
Movie · Original Story
The Cure
Movie · Novel
Kinder der Sonne
Movie · Theatre Play
The Lower Depths
Movie · Theatre Play
Boles
Movie · Story
The Last Ones
Movie · Author
Ilaingan
Movie · Novel
The Philistines
Movie · Original Story
Stormy Petrel
Movie · Story
Eccentrics
Movie · Author
Summerfolk
Movie · Author
Poslední
Movie · Theatre Play
Mother
Movie · Novel
Eccentrics
Movie · Author
The Life of Klim Samgin
TV · Novel · 14 eps
Without Sun
Movie · Novel
The Zykovs
Movie · Author
Life of Klim Samgin
Movie · Novel
Children of the Sun
Movie · Theatre Play
Children of the Sun
TV · Theatre Play · 2 eps
Malva
Movie · Original Story
Maa
Movie · Original Story
Vassa
Movie · Theatre Play
The Petty Bourgeois
Movie · Novel
The Zykovs
Movie · Author
Falošný peniaz
Movie · Theatre Play
Vassa Železnovová
Movie · Theatre Play
Meštiaci
Movie · Theatre Play
Vassa Zheleznova
Movie · Author
The Orlovs
Movie · Short Story
Enemies
Movie · Theatre Play
The Lower Depths
Movie · Theatre Play
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue
Movie · Novel
Summer Guests
Movie · Theatre Play
Dostigayev and Others
Movie · Author
The Counterfeit Coin
Movie · Author
Matka
Movie · Novel
Enemies
Movie · Theatre Play
Yegor Bulychyov and Others
Movie · Theatre Play
A Man Before His Time
Movie · Theatre Play
The Last Ones
Movie · Novel
Uprostřed babího léta ve stepi zahoukal vlak
Movie · Theatre Play
The Lower Depths
Movie · Theatre Play
The Philistines
Movie · Story
Bývalí ľudia
Movie · Short Story
Jegor Bulyčov
Movie · Theatre Play
Vassa Železnovová
Movie · Theatre Play
Shake-Up
Movie · Story
Threesome
Movie · Author
The Zykovs
Movie · Author
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
TV · Novel · 1 ep
Forest
Movie · Short Story
Before the Storm
Movie · Theatre Play
Jegor Bulyčov
Movie · Theatre Play
Li-ittle!
Movie · Original Story
Across Rus'
Movie · Short Story
Out of Boredom
Movie · Short Story
Piccoli borghesi
Movie · Theatre Play
Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla
Movie · Original Story
The Legend of the Flaming Heart
Movie · Novel
Summer Residents
Movie · Theatre Play
Song of a Falcon
Movie · Short Story
Eccentrics
Movie · Theatre Play
Onde a Terra Começa
Movie · Original Story
The Philistines
Movie · Author
Appassionata
Movie · Short Story
Wassa Schelesnowa
Movie · Theatre Play
Jegor Bulyčov a ti druzí
Movie · Theatre Play
Měšťáci
Movie · Theatre Play
Foma Gordeyev
Movie · Novel
Dostigayev and Others
Movie · Theatre Play
Měšťáci
Movie · Theatre Play
The Lower Depths
Movie · Theatre Play
The Mother
Movie · Novel
Mother
Movie · Novel
Malva
Movie · Short Story
Children of the Sun
Movie · Theatre Play
La Vida No Vale Nada
Movie · Story
Měšťáci
Movie · Theatre Play
Vassa Zheleznova
Movie · Theatre Play
The Barbarians
Movie · Theatre Play
Foes
Movie · Theatre Play
The Lower Depths
Movie · Theatre Play
Night Inn
Movie · Theatre Play
Albergue de mujeres
Movie · Author
Mother
Movie · Novel
The Artamonov Case
Movie · Novel
My Universities
Movie · Book
My Apprenticeship
Movie · Book
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Movie · Book
Enemies
Movie · Author
The Lower Depths
Movie · Theatre Play
Cain and Artem
Movie · Short Story
An Affair of the Clasps
Movie · Short Story
Mother
Movie · Novel
The Madness of the Valiants
Movie · Short Story
Souls on the Road
Movie · Original Story
Mother
Movie · Novel